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Space Fungus

Countless movies have been made about aliens attacking vulnerable astronauts as they explore the cosmos. But in real life, the greatest threat to space travellers’ health will probably come from earth-based hitch-hikers. By studying volunteers living for 30 days in this sealed spaceship simulator in a car park, NASA scientists have discovered that the presence of these ‘astronauts’ affects the types of microscopic fungi living alongside them. The researchers found that the numbers of certain kinds of fungi increased while the volunteers were living in the simulator, including harmful ones that can live in or on the body and cause allergies, asthma and skin infections. There’s a worry that the stressful conditions inside space ships and stations might bring down the astronauts’ immune defences, making them more likely to pick up fungal diseases. Knowing how fungal populations change in these environments will reveal how best to protect our future space explorers.

Written by Kat Arney

Image from work by A. Blachowicz and colleagues

Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, CA, USA

Image originally published under a Creative Commons Licence (BY 4.0)

Published in Microbiome, July 2017

Its been too long bulk upload (2/2)

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 35-

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 36-

Sadly I think I will be doing these updates here as weekly/ bi weekly updates for now on. I still update my Facebook page everyday if you want to follow me  heres a link https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000063564534

as for the sketches

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 9- another studio ghibli screenshot experiment painting

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 10-Day 12 More training sketches for school ( left side original artists works right side mine ) focusing on color lighting shape and composition  school assignment Original Artists -  Oga Kazuo,Theo prins, Jorge Jacinto, Sergey Kolesov  Screencaps from Tangled, Monsters Uni andThe Emperors new groove

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 13- little warn up sketch

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 14- some sketches from my CGMA Architecture course  assignment was to do some redesigns/ designs inspired by traditional Asian structures , Pagoda, Temple, Palace etc

Daily Sketch Year II - Day 15-

color experiments

Ok im sorry i dont know why but i cant seem to remember to upload

i already upload daily on facebook so if you want to make sure you see my daily sketches you can follow me on facebook  

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