This Week in the Future, August 16-20, 2010

Farming beets on Mars? With enough whisky, anything is possible.

Welcome to the future.

This week in the future on PopSci:

• Martian Environment Is Ideally Suited For Crop Farming, Study Says
• Scottish Scientists Turn Whisky Into Biofuel
• Judge Bans Future Plantings of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets, Throwing Nation’s Sugar Supply into Doubt
• NASA Testing Liquid-Lens Adjustable-Strength Glasses For Use In Space

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