NASA’s new toaster-sized machine MOXIE has converted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into breathable oxygen. 

MOXIE can produce ten grams of oxygen per hour and will be run nine times over the next two years under a variety of conditions as proof of concept.

MOXIE principal investigator Michael Hecht said it’s estimated one metric ton of oxygen would be needed to support astronauts living and working on Mars for one year.

The first ever study to screen the children of parents who helped clean up the Chernobyl disaster has found no mutations were associated with their parent’s high radiation exposure.

The children were all born between nineteen eighty seven and two thousand and two, and had their genomes analyzed for any mutations.

The study finds the parent’s radiation exposure had no impact on the children they conceived.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison disagreed with US president Joe Biden’s calls for increasing greenhouse gas emissions targets at a UN Climate Summit this morning. 

Australia will continue to aim for a reduction of between 26-28% on 2005 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, almost half of the US’ proposed revised target of 50-52%.

Morrison reiterated Australia would take a “technology, not taxes” approach to climate change. 

The Queensland government has announced the ABC will be filming a crime series exclusively in Queensland, with locations stretching from the South East through to the tropical Far North.

The series, called Troppo, is based on a bestselling novel by Candice Fox called Crimson Lake. 

The project is expected to bring $10 000 000 dollars to the Queensland economy, and create over 130 jobs

National Shelter, a non-for-profit organisation lobbying for affordable housing access, says legislation needs to cap exorbitant rent increases on the Sunshine Coast.  

Executive officer, Adrian Pisarski, says the rent rises of one hundred or two hundred dollars a week for people who have just emerged from a pandemic is shocking.

The Queensland Residential Tenancies Authority says tenants should discuss rent increases with their property manager if they feel it is excessive.

A 300km network of pipelines is planned for the Lockyer Valley region to help grow the agricultural and horticultural industries.

The project will use purified recycled water, whilst also sourcing up to 34000 mega litres from the Wivenhoe Dam.

The Lockyer Valley, which produces some of Australia’s most diverse fruits and vegetables, has become overly reliant on groundwater supply in recent years due to ongoing droughts.