Wieger Wamelink receives the Klokhuis Science Prize (video)

Wieger Wamelink’s alien crop farming competed with five other research programmes at the cultural centre LUX in Nijmegen. Other nominated projects included research on robots in school and why people cry.

It is the first time the Klokhuis Science Prize has been awarded. As part of the prize, the television programme will dedicate an episode to the cultivation of vegetables on Mars.

More on this subject (partly in Dutch)

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  Science – 10 October 2016 16:56-Groenten van Mars is één van de zes genomineerde projecten voor de Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs. De winnaar wordt volgende week…

• Unique dinner with vegetables from Mars and the moon (video)

  Science – 31 August 2016 16:10-Growing vegetables on artificial Mars and Lunar turf. Ecologist Wieger Wamelink of Wageningen UR used crowdfunding to finance most of this research….

• Waarom maan- en Marsgroenten scoren in de media

  Science – 28 July 2016 15:02-De eerste aardappelen afkomstig van ‘Marsgrond’ zijn geoogst. Onderzoeker Wieger Wamelink van Wageningen UR had speciaal voor dit moment een tv-ploeg…