Cooking in the Cold
Michele Gentille's stories conjure images of European chateaus and cavernous wine cellars, with her life like a cross between a Conde Naste travel article and a restaurant review in Food and Wine magazine.

NSF Seeks $6.85 Billion for FY09
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking to boost its 2009 fiscal year (FY) budget by about 13 percent over the current budget year, with a request for $6.85 billion. The total budget request for the Office of Polar Programs (OPP) is a shade over $490 million, an 11 percent increase over OPP's estimated FY 2008 budget.

Taking Shelter
Quick deployment is one of the key components that NASA is after for a space habitat that will shelter astronauts on long-term missions to the moon and beyond to Mars. One leading concept is an inflatable building. A team from NASA brought a terrestrial version of the structure to McMurdo in January to test a number of variables, including its resiliency in the tough Antarctic