Scientists and space explorers have been on the hunt to determine where and how much ice is present on the Moon. Water ice would be an important resource at a future lunar base, as it could be used to support humans or be broken down to hydrogen and oxygen, key components of rocket fuel. University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa researchers are using two innovative approaches to advance the search for ice on the Moon.

The University of Louisville and Kosair for Kids will dramatically expand capacity and improve services provided through the Kosair for Kids Center for Pediatric NeuroRecovery. Supported by a $1 million grant from Kosair for Kids, $2 million in federal HRSA funding and a bequest, this project will renovate the fourth floor of UofL Health - Frazier Rehab Institute, creating a 12,500-square-foot, state-of-the-art space that consolidates all therapy, research and clinical services for the center.

Integrating these functions will enhance research collaboration, improve patient care and increase treatment capacity by 50%, allowing up to 24 children per day to receive life-changing therapies.

A planet 140 light-years from Earth is rapidly coming apart due to its close proximity to its star. The roasting planet is effectively evaporating away: It sheds an enormous amount of surface minerals as it whizzes around its star.

A miniature lab has been launched into Earth orbit containing microbes designed to produce edible proteins in space.

UVA Engineering mechanical and aerospace students plan to hitch a ride on a NASA rocket this August. They want to see if they can be the first researchers to use low-cost, miniature spacecraft technology to acquire reentry data that could improve future full-scale hypersonic aircraft designs.

The molecules involved in a chemical process that is essential for cell function and the appearance of life on Earth (also known as the Krebs cycle¹) can form in interstellar ice.² This discovery has just expanded the inventory of prebiotic molecules³ that can form in space, and marks a new stage in research on signs of life in the Universe. CNRS scientists⁴ and their colleagues in Hawaii obtained these results by recreating interstellar ice in the laboratory, and by studying it under conditions as close to real as possible⁵ using an unprecedented combination of infrared spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques. The study will be published on 21 April in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.