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How does reduced gravity affect astronauts' muscles and nerve responses
Jul 22, 2022 (SPX)
But what happens to these muscles when there is no gravity (or an "unloading" of gravitational force) for them to work against? The question might sound ridicul...
A little piece of Washington state blasted into space this week
Jul 17, 2022 (SPX)
The inhabitants are bacteria that live in the soil in Prosser, Wash. Scientists will study what the bacteria do in a microgravity environment to learn more abou...
Artificial intelligence model finds potential drug molecules a thousand times faster
Jul 14, 2022 (SPX)
In a paper that will be presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), MIT researchers developed a geometric deep-learning model called E...
UCLA scientists develop durable material for flexible artificial muscles
Jul 11, 2022 (SPX)
"Creating an artificial muscle to enable work and detect force and touch has been one of the grand challenges of science and engineering," said Qibing Pei, a pr...
The path of most resistance could help limit bone loss during spaceflight
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
The small study, published in Scientific Reports, on 17 international astronauts found that while the shinbone partially recovers, the sustained bone losses aft...
Floating in space might be fun, but TBone study shows it's hard on earthly bodies
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
The TBone study was started in 2015 by Dr. Steven Boyd, PhD, director of the McCaig Institute for Bone and Joint Health and professor in the Cumming School of M...
Smart earbud will measure how astronauts sleep
Jul 01, 2022 (SPX)
To avoid the negative short and long-term side effects of poor sleep, Aarhus University's Centre for Ear-EEG has developed a technology that can monitor an astr...
Lost in space: Astronauts struggle to regain bone density
Jun 30, 2022 (AFP)
Previous research has shown astronauts lose between one to two percent of bone density for every month spent in space, as the lack of gravity takes the pressure...
Robotic arms connected directly to brain of partially paralyzed man allows him to feed himself
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
In less than 90 seconds, a person with very limited upper body mobility who hasn't been able to use his fingers in about 30 years, just fed himself dessert usin...
Tiny lab on a chip
Jun 29, 2022 (SPX)
By measuring the shift in peak transmittance wavelength of a terahertz radiation source, the concentration of even trace dissolved contaminants in a tiny drop o...
Human's motion perception revealed by spaceflight: study
May 24, 2022 (XNA)
Humans have evolved under the constant influence of gravity, though normally we don't notice it. Human brains are selectively tuned to movement patterns initiat...
New study reveals the effect of extended space flight on astronauts' brains
May 06, 2022 (SPX)
"These findings have important implications as we continue space exploration," said senior author Juan Piantino, M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics (neurol...
UNC blood clot expert working with NASA to study blood and clots in zero gravity
May 04, 2022 (SPX)
Moll was consulted by NASA when the discovery of the blood clot was made during the astronaut's mission on the International Space Station (ISS). This was the f...
DLR provides female measuring mannequins for the NASA Artemis I mission
Apr 28, 2022 (SPX)
The mission is vital in light of NASA's plan to send the first woman to the Moon during the Artemis programme. Researchers at the DLR Institute of Aerospace Med...
California start-up sends tiny robots on voyage into brains
Apr 14, 2022 (AFP)
Bionaut Labs plans its first clinical trials on humans in just two years for its tiny injectable robots, which can be carefully guided through the brain using m...
Orbital Assembly and Irvine to study health on ISS for 100 Year Starship project
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
"100 Year Starship is a multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to fostering the capabilities for interstellar travel and OAC is uniquely focused on production o...
Researchers adapt technology made for astronomical observations to biomedical imaging
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
Currently, fluorescent tracers are used to image the distribution of multiple molecules in a sample under a microscope. The use of multiple tracers can reveal t...
System helps severely motor-impaired individuals type more quickly and accurately
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
Bauby, who had signed a book contract shortly before his accident, wrote the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" using a dictation system in which his sp...
SpacePharma to launch three experiments on AXIOM-1 flight
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
One is ALEPH FARMS - Meat for Space, which tests a technology for growing meat products from animal cells. The second is CADW which examines whether a specific ...
Smart glove to train young surgeons
Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)
Engineers at Western Sydney University have invented a new surgical glove built around low-cost sensors which can record hand movements in fine detail, giving t...
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