{"id":198350,"date":"2015-04-03T17:53:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T21:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/international-space-station-experiment-to-reveal-how-cress-grows-without-gravity.php"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T21:53:52","slug":"international-space-station-experiment-to-reveal-how-cress-grows-without-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/international-space-station-experiment-to-reveal-how-cress-grows-without-gravity.php","title":{"rendered":"International Space Station experiment to reveal how cress grows without gravity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Japanese-led experiment will see how plants      grow on the ISS              Researchers will monitor how they grow without      influence of gravity              Results could help farmers on Earth get a      higher crop yield              And it may also help future astronauts grow      plants on Mars        <\/p>\n<p>    By Jonathan O'Callaghan for    MailOnline  <\/p>\n<p>    Published: 06:46 EST, 3 April    2015 | Updated: 07:18 EST, 3 April    2015  <\/p>\n<p>      20 shares    <\/p>\n<p>      22    <\/p>\n<p>      View      comments    <\/p>\n<p>    An experiment on the ISS will investigate whether plants    are able to use a sixth sense while in space - a sense of    gravity.  <\/p>\n<p>    In the weightless environment of the space station,    researchers will monitor how plants grow in a particular    direction without a noticeable gravitational pull.  <\/p>\n<p>    The results could help farmers on Earth get a higher crop    yield - and may also help future astronauts grow plants on    missions beyond Earth orbit to the moon and Mars.  <\/p>\n<p>      An experiment on the ISS will investigate whether plants are      able to use a sixth sense while in space - a sense of      gravity. Nasa astronaut Karen Nyberg is pictured harvesting      plants from a previous Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency      (Jaxa) investigation of thale cress during Expedition 37 in      2013    <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read more from the original source:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3024428\/Do-plants-sixth-sense-International-Space-Station-experiment-reveal-cress-grows-without-gravity-help-astronauts-cultivate-food-Mars.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\/RK=0\/RS=rBlA6YAx6bYyz4VRaIDjK5l2N8s-\" title=\"International Space Station experiment to reveal how cress grows without gravity\">International Space Station experiment to reveal how cress grows without gravity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Japanese-led experiment will see how plants grow on the ISS Researchers will monitor how they grow without influence of gravity Results could help farmers on Earth get a higher crop yield And it may also help future astronauts grow plants on Mars By Jonathan O'Callaghan for MailOnline Published: 06:46 EST, 3 April 2015 | Updated: 07:18 EST, 3 April 2015 20 shares 22 View comments An experiment on the ISS will investigate whether plants are able to use a sixth sense while in space - a sense of gravity.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/international-space-station-experiment-to-reveal-how-cress-grows-without-gravity.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-station"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}