Coffee in weightlessness

Two students from Costa Rica invented the coffee machine that can be used in space. Currently astronauts content soluble coffee heated in a microwave oven. In microgravity water spreads into droplets and adheres to any container in which is placed. Because of this space can not use coffee machine - no water seeps through the filter. Furthermore, when heated in water instantly vaporizes weightlessness.

Former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang (Franklin Chang) decided to relieve astronauts of these problems and obvil competition at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica (Technological Institute of Costa Rica). Daniel Rosen (Daniel Rozen) and Joshua Solano (Josue Solano), who took part in the competition, have created a device, called cosmic coffee maker. The machine heats the water to 90&# 8242 C in a special chamber and then placed in a container with boiling water and ground coffee. A few minutes later the astronaut can enjoy a cup of freshly brewed flavored drink, the newspaper The Telegraph.

"Round the world" already wrote about the fact that people who regularly drink coffee, have a much less chance of getting cancer of the liver. Swedish scientists found that there is an inverse relationship between the level of coffee consumption and the presence of human liver enzymes, which indicate a risk of chronic liver disease and cirrhosis different.

Coffee not only improves long-term memory, but can be a medicine: it brings relief from dry cough neastmaticheskogo origin, stimulates the secretion of gastric juices and helps the kidneys flush out toxins from the body nitrogen, thereby reducing by 10% the risk of urolithiasis. In addition, it is proved that "coffee drinkers" are at much lower risk of blepharospasm - involuntary contraction of the circular muscle of the eye, leading to persistent spasmodic closure of eyelids, eye or tick.

However, women are not always useful coffee. This summer, doctors from the University of Radboud (Radboud Universiteit) in Neymegane, the Netherlands, found that coffee consumption reduces fertility in women with fertility problems. As it turned out, drinking four or more cups of coffee a day reduces by 26% the probability of becoming a mother.