Sentences with phrase «in microgravity»

Understanding the behavior of bacteria in space is important for protecting astronauts on long spaceflights, and previous research has shown that bacteria behave differently in the microgravity environment of space.

Dragon is due to return to Earth on 28 October, bearing completed experiments such as ESA's BioLab, which studies how cells and small invertebrates develop and grow in the microgravity of the ISS.

The European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) is a platform carrying equipment for experiments in microgravity.

The long stay for Kelly and Kornienko should provide valuable information on the effects of long - term living in a microgravity environment — considered important for planning future deep - space missions to asteroids and Mars.

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.

«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»

Dean Cheng of the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «And the main purpose of this is two things: one, to practice docking maneuvers, and two, to allow Chinese astronauts to have a little more extended time in a microgravity environment.»

As they spend relatively long periods «in flight» between punts, their movements resemble those of astronauts in microgravity.

A new robotic gripping tool based on gecko feet can grab hold of floating objects in microgravity.

Genes in Space - 3 married these two investigations to create a full microbial identification process in microgravity.

Microbes experience «low shear» conditions in microgravity that resemble conditions inside the human body, but are difficult to study.

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.

Kelly is one half of nasa's Twins Study, an investigation into how life in microgravity affects physiology.

The Nature Communications study was inspired by simple experiments conducted in microgravity aboard the International Space Station.

It has been a bumpy ride, but last January the project — ABC Transporters in Microgravity was among the four selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) in its Fly Your Thesis!

Giant crystals and spherical flames — science in microgravity The International Space Station may still be under construction, but microgravity experiments have been under way for decades.

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

«Just try to analyse a water sample while scrolling through pages of a procedure manual displayed on a computer monitor while you and the computer both float in microgravity,» says US astronaut Michael Fincke, who spent six months on the station in 2004.

This protein crystal growth in microgravity may reveal new characteristics that are masked by gravity on Earth.

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.

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.

The scientific payloads on Dragon include investigations that focus on efficient ways to grow plants in space, demonstrating laser optics to communicate with Earth, human immune system function in microgravity and Earth observation.

As a new extension of our CLOµDS teacher professional development program, we've recently initiated a club at Trenton Central High School that gives students the opportunity to build an experiment that will be performed in microgravity.

NASA's EcAMSat small satellite experiment may reveal how to more effectively fight bacteria in microgravity.

One of Merck's main interests involves growing protein crystals, which form as larger and more organized structures in microgravity.

On the discussion docket, per NASA's announcement on Zuckerberg's social media mecca, will be questions such as: «What is it like to live and work in microgravity orbiting the Earth?»

And while socializing on Mars might be in the near - distant future, Budweiser is taking steps now to better understand how its ingredients react in microgravity environments so that when we get to Mars, Budweiser will be there.

Vision changes during extended stays in microgravity are critical health conditions that scientists are investigating.

In that time, astronauts have walked on the moon and even endured more than a year in microgravity.

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic are preparing to test their theory that stem cells grow faster in microgravity

After prolonged periods in microgravity, astronauts» hearts became more spherical, according to scans done on the International Space Station.

The UW team's experiment, Lohrmeyer explains, was designed to test the feasibility of making precision machine parts in microgravity.

Dr. Coyne's team took a different approach: They cultured a human placental trophoblast cell line in a microgravity bioreactor system developed by NASA.

IT»S A BIRD, IT»S A PLANE Aaron Parness of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory does his «best Superman» to grab a floating cube with a new gecko gripper — inspired hand in a microgravity plane.

Since the 1960s, experiments conducted in space stations and research rockets have shown that plants can grow normally in microgravity provided factors such as confinement, lack of ventilation and elevated radiation levels are taken into account.

But there is no convection in the microgravity of the Mir space station.

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

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

But the team is wary of upsetting the lander, which came to rest in a precarious position on its side in November after bouncing around the comet in its microgravity environment.

The Cottage Lane students hope to determine how long the plant takes to germinate in microgravity, while the Florida group looks at the frequency of lettuce seed germination in space.

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

Crystal formation may cause jellyfish born in microgravity to lose their sense of direction and could potentially affect humans in the same way.

If you cut a Dugesia Planarian worm would it grow back in microgravity?

Astronauts will use the device to study the effects on rodents of extended periods of time spent in microgravity.

Yet with the nearest emergency room 30 million miles away, and Earth - style surgical anesthetics unworkable in microgravity, elderly astronauts would have to be freakishly sturdy to weather the medical challenges of the trip.

To test this, Japanese researchers freeze - dried mouse sperm and sent it up to the ISS, where it spent nine months orbiting the Earth in microgravity.

A new study launched aboard SpaceX's fifth commercial resupply services (CRS) mission to the space station examines the reparative processes of flatworms in microgravity.

The Plant Signaling investigation and Biological Research in Canisters (BRIC) 17 - 1 both study how the plants» gene expressions change in microgravity.

Science payloads include the ISS - Rapid Scatterometer to monitor ocean surface wind speed and direction; new biomedical hardware that will help facilitate prolonged biological studies of rodents in microgravity; and a study of a small flowering plant related to cabbage that allows scientists to study plant growth and adaptations in space.