Positive Story: Scientists are building a 'Noah's ark' of animal cells on the moon | A Step in the Right Direction

Positive Story: Scientists are building a 'Noah's ark' of animal cells on the moon | A Step in the Right Direction

Why this story matters: This story offers a refreshing look at how practical solutions and human effort can create real, positive change. Quick summary: This story highlights recent developments related to animal, showing how constructive action can lead to meaningful results. In 1977, NASA launched identical Golden Records into the far reaches of space aboard two Voyager spacecraft. The phonographic recording was a cosmic time capsule, carrying images and sounds of everything from human greetings, to songbirds, and even Chuck Berry’s single "Johnny B. Goode.” Five years later, in 1984, conservationists began storing frozen seeds on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in a facility that would later be known as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Today, that vault holds duplicates of over 1.3 million seed samples from every nation around the globe — as a safeguard against famine, war, and disaster. Now, it appears Smithsonian scientists are borrowing inspiration from both the Golden Reco…