Sentences with phrase «from microgravity»

They reared small freshwater fish aboard the International Space Station for 56 days and examined the animals» jawbones and teeth for any potential effects from microgravity.

«If there were stunning successes from microgravity crystallization, we would be clamoring to continue the program,» says Wayne Hendrickson, a biochemist at Columbia University.

Not exact matches

Companies developing things that could benefit from experiments in microgravity, such as biotechnology and new materials, are not flying them currently because they would need to wait years and pay a high price to put them on the ISS, says Gold.

It is important to note that another study from the research group (the PlanHab Project), looking at whole - body exercise, found that hypoxia did in fact aggravate the impairment caused by microgravity alone.

The cucumber roots grown in microgravity bent towards the wet substrate, sometimes by as much as 60 degrees from the vertical.

Japanese researchers shipped freeze - dried mouse sperm to the orbiting International Space Station and stored it there for nine months to find out how microgravity and cosmic radiation would affect mice born from the cells.

The researchers also found increases in gray matter volume in regions that control leg movement and process sensory information from legs, which may reflect changes related to the brain learning how to move in microgravity.

A team from Brookhaven Academy in Mississippi will determine whether the bacteria Ralstonia eutropha maintains its ability to produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) in microgravity.

The hard drive contained data from the CVX - 2 (Critical Viscosity of Xenon) experiment, designed to study the way xenon gas flows in microgravity.

He notes that the experiment could have only worked in microgravity, to prevent the xenon from settling under its feather - light weight.

Students from Riebli Elementary and Mark West Charter School in California examine whether Triops longicaudatus, or tadpole shrimp, could be grown in microgravity as a food source for long - term missions.

Ninth - graders from Cesar Chavez Public Charter School for Public Policy in Washington, focused their attention on whether radish roots and shoots will grow differently in microgravity.

Once microgravity was achieved, the system started measurements automatically and was controlled from the ground station via a low - bandwidth radio link.

The body absorbs medications differently in microgravity from the way it does on the ground.

This investigation is led by a scientist from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs, Dr. Timothy Hammond, who is looking to study yeast cells in microgravity.

Samples taken from the crew support human health studies in microgravity, such as the Nutrition investigation.

For her Ph.D., Dunbar turned her attention to the effects of microgravity on bone strength, graduating in 1983 from the University of Houston after adding a biological science to her list of qualifications.

Reexamining data from his 20 - year - old NASA experiment involving the repeated freezing and melting of high - purity materials in microgravity, Martin Glicksman, research professor in materials science and the Allen Henry Chair at Florida Institute of Technology, working with Kumar Ankit at the School of Matter, Transport and Energy at Arizona State University, discovered the way nature guides formation of complex patterns in materials that crystallize.

These individual studies range from food growth and consumption, to determining the effect of microgravity on oxidation, to even the production of penicillin on the space station.

By looking at the artifacts of astronauts — from their dining utensils and sleeping bags to their religious icons and family photos — these researchers hope to gain new insights into how astronauts of different backgrounds interact with each other, and how they adapt to life in microgravity.

The prize: the opportunity to perform their experiments aboard an Airbus A300 Zero - G aircraft that will take off from Bordeaux, France, during ESA's 51st Microgravity Research Campaign next November.

A new study from the ESA has looked at how seedlings handle microgravity.

To find out how bacteria behaves in the microgravity conditions of space, a team of researchers led by Luis Zea from the University of Colorado Boulder sent E. coli samples up to the ISS.

Botanists from Ohio Weslyan University leverage the microgravity environment of the International Space Station to study root growth behaviors and sensory systems in an investigation known as Gravity Perception Systems (Plant Gravity Perception).

From that point on, the camera starts following the same rules of physics as the characters in microgravity, and the idea is for the audience to be taken into the journey.