Sentences with phrase «lack of gravity»

In space, lack of gravity causes astronauts to quickly lose bone.

Even ask them about fairly simple and prosaic things about gravitational acceleration, the apparent lack of gravity in free fall (when of course you wouldn't be falling if there were really no gravity) and you will see that most people will understand little and many will outright dispute a lot that we now know about gravity.

For future long distance space missions such as Mars, which will take an estimated three years for the round trip, scientists want to study the effect of lack of gravity on human bones, the heart and other organs.

The lack of gravity - induced molecular changes on the U.S. National Lab could help Merck researchers improve drug delivery and manufacturing methods on Earth.

Spaceflight Associated Neuro - ocular Syndrome, or SANS, is hypothesized to be caused by blood flow toward the head due to lack of gravity, resulting in changes to eye structure and possibly vision changes.

Lack of gravity has been found to cause astronauts» spines to stretch by as much as 7 centimetres.

Researchers had previously theorized that this behavior results from the lack of gravity reducing the movement of extracellular molecules and leading to reduced nutrient availability, however, there was little evidence to support this theory.

They are observing the worms in space to find out how these processes may be disrupted by the lack of gravity.

Although, unlike astronauts from Aldrin's day, crew members now sleep in quiet, dark chambers, lack of gravity itself may contribute to the problem.

Fisher's pen makes up for a lack of gravity by storing ink in a cartridge pressurized with nitrogen at 35 pounds per square inch — more than twice as much force as sea - level atmospheric pressure on Earth.

The experiment on the space shuttle Atlantis was designed to explore how a lack of gravity affects disease - causing microbes in space.

13 John Glenn found it hard to choke down his food, but not because of the lack of gravity: Early astronauts relied on aluminum tubes of semiliquid mush, food cubes, and dehydrated meals.

The lack of gravity in space doesn't seem to affect certain aspects of root growth in the botanical equivalent of lab rats, a new study suggests.

But the lack of gravity in space poses a special problem for pool - boiling: The bubbles have no buoyancy.

The swimming pool, which helps provide the lack of gravity needed for astronauts to practice for spacewalks, housed a mockup of the Orion spacecraft that would carry astronauts to the asteroid.

What's interesting about these trailers — both the domestic and slightly scarier / better international one — is that the film embraces the lack of gravity in space, refusing to create some sort of simulated gravity device that allows the actors to move normally.

Building them takes advantage of in situ resources and the lack of gravity to be done with very little energy compared to building on earth.

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«Darling's chief crime was what Bacon called a lack of gravity; for more modern readers he seems to have been something of a David Brent»

One can't simply pick up and move forward with the trivialities of everyday life without commenting about the lack of gravity all of a sudden.