A forgotten Space Age technology could change how we grow food | Lisa Dyson

We're heading for a world population of 10 billion people -- but what will we all eat? Lisa Dyson rediscovered an idea developed by NASA in the 1960s for deep-space travel, and it could be the key to reinventing how we grow food.

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