Researchers at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have developed a 3D-printed cookie for space travel, using yeast to transform plastic and agricultural waste into an edible, protein-rich food. Named µBites, which is pronounced "microbites", the cookies were created for and funded by the NASA Deep Space Food Challenge, which tasks researchers with designing food for the resource-limited
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