A Chinese team has emerged from a sealed capsule, in which they subsisted on mealworms and plants for over three months in a study designed to determine if the high-protein diet could be used in lengthy space travel. On May 20 2014, the researchers exited ‘Moon Palace 1’, a 160-square-meter self-contained laboratory located in Beijing, after enduring a 105-day experiment intended to help China keep astronauts in outer space for extended periods of time. The team was comprised of two women and one man from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) According to Liu Hong, professor of Beijing University … Continue reading Eat Worms