Future astronauts are likely to be the solar system’s best-dressed moonwalkers - after Prada was awarded a spacesuit design contract.
Nasa’s 2025 lunar Artemis III mission - the first human boots on the moon since 1972 - will feature chic all-in-ones by the Italian fashion house, which is collaborating with infrastructure firm Axiom Space on its technical suits, called Extravehicular Mobility Units.
Tech & Science Daily has insight from Joe Bromley, the Evening Standard’s junior fashion editor, who’s been examining Prada’s spacewear plans.
Satellite data from the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service reveals a hole in the Earth’s ozone layer over the Antarctic ice is now its biggest on record - over 10 million square miles.
It’s speculated this hole in the ozone, which absorbs solar radiation, is so large due to the Tonga underwater volcanic eruption last January, which was the largest natural explosion in more than a century.
One of the trio of scientists who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry for their work on quantum dots - tiny coloured lights used for everyday applications that include electronics and medical imaging - has been describing how the pioneering research helps “people and the planet”.
MIT’s Moungi Bawendi scooped the honour with Louis Brus of Columbia University and Alexei Ekimov of Nanocrystals Technology.
Plus, 3D-printed skin, broadband price hike alert, Amazon web satellites launch, AI warning after would-be royal crossbow assassin jailed and rehabilitated turtle released.
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