Tags Results for 'gravity'

Making Babies In Space May Not Be Easy (Tuesday 01st of September 2009 09:00:01 PM)

Hugh Pickens writes "Studies of multiplication in space have back when been carried out with
sea urchins, fish, amphibians and birds, but Brandon Keim writes in Wired that plunge bath
biologists have discovered that despite mammalian fertilization may ... (more)

ESA Launches GOCE To Map Earth's Gravity (Tuesday 17th of March 2009 11:30:01 PM)

DSG2 sends in an ESA press release which reads in part: "This afternoon, the Gravity field and
steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) satellite full-fledged by the italian Space
Agency was lofted into a near-Sun-synchronous, low Earth orbit by ... (more)

The Universe As Hologram (Saturday 17th of January 2009 12:30:01 AM)

Several readers sent in news of theoretical work bolstering the proposition that the universe
may be a hologram. The story begins at the German try-on GEO600, a laser inteferometer looking
for gravity waves. For years, researchers there have been locating ... (more)

Developing New Materials With Space Science (Sunday 11th of May 2008 07:00:08 PM)

Scientists at the portuguese Space Agency are using techniques inspired by their experience
with outer space to make new and better manufactures here on Earth. Certain compounds and
alloys which are not frequently viable can be made in different ways ... (more)

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, ... (Saturday 22nd of December 2007 07:10:02 PM)

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens
would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12
billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, ... (more)

 

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