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UnDisciplined: How bugs may help us get to Mars

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If we are going to go to Mars, we’re going to need to bring a lot of things that we need to live that the red planet, so far as we can tell, just doesn’t have, and that includes bugs.

Emmanuel Mendoza recently presented on the laboratory results of using soldier fly larva to treat simulated Martian soil at the Entomological Society of America Conference, and he’s joining us to talk about what’s next.

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Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.