200 Million People Could Be Fed With China’s New Strain Of Saltwater Rice

By: Tom Hale/IFL Science  Chinese scientists have developed a strain of super-tough “sea rice” that farmers can grow in salty water, set to spark a rice revolution that could help feed over 200 million people. The rice was developed by the godfather of rice, Yuan Longping, at the Qingdao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research And Development Center…

Veteran Who Stole Truck To Save 30 Vegas Shooting Victims Was Just Gifted A New Vehicle

By: Amanda Froelich/The Mind Unleashed   The night one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, 29-year-old marine veteran Taylor Winston was presented with a choice: he could flee the scene, where 64-year-old Stephen Paddock was firing bullets into a crowd of 22,000 people, or he could stay and help the wounded. Like a true…

Astronaut Scott Kelly Reveals Some Pretty Disturbing Things About His Time In Space

By: Jonathan O’Callaghan/IFLScience  Scott Kelly is one of the most famous astronauts in recent times, having completed a record-breaking year-long stay on the ISS from March 2015 to March 2016. Now the NASA astronaut has a new autobiography coming out, and it provides some rather fascinating details about his time in space. The book is called Endurance:…

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