Health
This vegetable is richer in calcium than milk, good to eat raw or cooked.
Lettuce is a relative of lettuce. However, not many people know about and eat this vegetable.
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Space science
Lettuce helps astronauts improve health during long-term mission to Mars
Lettuce grown on Mars helps protect astronauts against osteoporosis, reduces bone density, and fractures when performing long-term missions in space.
Biology
Israel develops method of harvesting electric current from seaweed
The researchers used the seaweed species Ulva, commonly known as sea lettuce, as a new photosynthetic source for electric current, which generates molecules that transfe…
Health
The herbs that cure sore throat are available in the garden
Drinking water with lettuce leaves, chives mixed with honey, basil leaves, river bones... can soothe coughs and sore throats when it's cold.
Health
The benefits of unfamiliar fruits that you did not expect
Lala (also known as lettuce, luffa, muong muong, snake gourd) is a super food that is easy to eat in hot seasons.
Discover science
It is possible to grow vegetables in Antarctica without soil and sunlight
This will be a huge step forward in providing food for human outer space missions.
Archeology
Lettuce - the sexual
Not only is the popular salad ingredient, lettuce (lettuce) once considered by the ancient Egyptians as an aphrodisiac herb and used as a symbol for the penis, follows a…
Space science
'Martian Gardens - Martian Gardens' helps scientists find a way to grow vegetables on Mars
NASA has made many bold plans for the future of the Mars program, adding self-propelled ships to the Martian surface by 2020 and sending manned spaceships in 2030.
Space science
The first astronaut to eat long leaf red lettuce grown on the universe
Astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday for the first time tasted long-leaf red lettuce grown in a zero gravity environment.
Space science
NASA has put a vegetable garden on the universe
On 4/5, the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) announced that it has put a vegetable garden on the International Space Station (ISS). Thus, astronauts will have the opportunity…
Space science
NASA will grow lettuce on the universe
Experts at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) plan to bring lettuce grown on the International Space Station (ISS).
Biology
The first flower blooms out of the earth
Astronauts have successfully planted flowers for the first time on the International Space Station (ISS).
Biology
Why sawn wax leaves with holes?
Great calculations have helped scientists solve a difficult problem, haunting them for over 100 years.
Biology
Lettuce - a new source of anti-cancer pharmaceutical materials
Italian scientists have discovered a promising new weapon in the fight against cancer: cedar, a species that grows in Southeast Asia.
Animal world
Giant carnivorous slug invades Britain
The farmers in the UK are headache to deal with the giant slugs invading and destroying garden fields.