News tagged with weightless environment
Salmonella Spills its Secrets on the Space Shuttle
Salmonella, what's gotten into you? Researchers have been asking themselves this question ever since Salmonella bacteria grown on board the space shuttle returned to Earth 3 to 7 times more virulent than S ...
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Commercial platform offers exposure at space station
Researchers will be able to expose experiments to the weightlessness and vacuum of space by using a new commercial platform outside of International Space Station (ISS).
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2012 |
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Students' experiments to play out in space
Science experiments devised by teenage students, one from Egypt and two from the United States, will be conducted in space as part of a move by YouTube and Lenovo to inspire young minds.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 23, 2012 |
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Angry Birds catapult into space with NASA boost
Rovio's Angry Birds are taking their battle against the egg-stealing pigs into space and NASA is giving them a boost.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 08, 2012 |
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Weightless US teachers eye giant science leap
"Excited," "nervous," "terrified" -- just three emotions described by a group of US teachers about to take a dizzying "weightless" flight all for the cause of science, naturally.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 17, 2011 |
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UCF students to experience free-fall for physics experiment
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of current, past and future University of Central Florida students will float around in weightlessness like astronauts this month as part of a physics experiment that could provide ...
Nov 16, 2011 |
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Spinning blood device set to safeguard astronaut health
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA has begun developing a new blood-testing device for astronauts on the International Space Station. A wide range of ailments from diabetes to heart disease should be diagnosable in moments from a single ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Louisiana Tech University researchers, NASA partner to conduct zero-gravity experiments
Researchers from Louisiana Tech University will be floating high above the Gulf of Mexico this month to conduct zero-gravity testing of an experimental DNA analysis instrument developed at Tech that could ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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PPPL lets teachers hitch a ride on NASA's Zero-G
Time seemed to stop. Teachers Alison Miller of South Brunswick High School and Darrell Williams of Fisher Middle School in Ewing floated over their science experiments, wearing olive-drab green jumpsuits -- ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 16, 2011 |
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A photon’s point of view
From a photon’s point of view, it is emitted and then instantaneously reabsorbed. This is true for a photon emitted in the core of the Sun, which might be reabsorbed after crossing a fraction of a millimetre’s ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 08, 2011 |
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How does microgravity affect astronauts?
Anyone over 40 knows firsthand the effects of gravity's constant downward pull on our faces and bodies. It is an immutable force that Einstein called a “curvature of space-time” -- but the curvature ...
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Aug 04, 2011 |
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