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April 27, 2015
The ISS-RapidScat instrument has been in orbit seven months, and forecasters are already finding this new eye-in-the-sky helpful as they keep watch on major storms around the globe.
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April 14, 2015
American company Ras Labs creates muscles out of an advanced smart material that could be used in robots, expanding its capabilities while enabling them to go places considered too dangerous for humans.
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April 13, 2015
Spaceflight causes significant physiological changes including an accelerated loss of muscle and bone density, and immune system dysfunction that parallel the effects of natural aging here on Earth.
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April 13, 2015
With their delivery on the next SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station, the Osteo-4 investigation team will analyze the effects of microgravity on osteocyte cultures for the first time.
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March 9, 2015
From Saharan dust storms to icy clouds to smoke on the opposite side of the continent, the first image from NASA's newest cloud- and aerosol-measuring instrument, CATS, provides a profile of the atmosphere above Africa.
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February 24, 2015
A study into a key bone-growing protein was recently funded to take place in orbit aboard the space station. Such a capability could benefit those needing bone for reconstructive surgery due to trauma like combat injuries or osteoporosis.
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February 3, 2015
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Zebrafish Muscle investigation observes the effects of microgravity on the zebrafish, Danio rerio, a tropical freshwater fish belonging to the minnow family.
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January 30, 2015
Elon Musk, CEO and lead designer at SpaceX, will be the keynote speaker at the fourth annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference, which takes place in Boston July 7 to 9.
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January 30, 2015
When blizzard warnings were in effect in New England, NASA's ISS-RapidScat instrument provided forecasters with wind speed data on the nor'easter that had hurricane-force wind gusts.
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January 8, 2015
After a rigorous selection process and months of preparation, 42 students were set for the exciting experience of watching the launch of their research from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. That excitement faded when the rocket suffered an anomaly.
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November 28, 2014
With the successful completion of mission operations for Rodent Research-1, NASA has brought an important new biological research capability into space.
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October 14, 2014
The race to find answers for cancer is not a sprint, but a marathon. While you are putting one foot in front of the other on the ground, there are researchers running tests aboard the International Space Station in support of this universal cause.
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September 23, 2014
Plant biology investigations called Petri Plants explore the fundamental genetic mechanisms plants use to adapt to a microgravity environment.
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September 20, 2014
Plant science, wind monitors, 3-D printers and more head to the space station on SpaceX-4. The SpaceX Dragon cargo resupply vehicle is scheduled to launch to the orbiting laboratory in the early morning of Sept. 20.
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September 19, 2014
Recently the space station has hosted increasing numbers of fruit fly research studies. One is scheduled launch to the station Sept. 20. A third experiment is planned to launch in December.
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September 17, 2014
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to blast off to the space station carrying the third suite of research investigations sponsored by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), termed Advancing Research Knowledge (ARK)-2.
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September 16, 2014
Upcoming instruments planned for the external space station platform include the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing, the Calorimetric Electron Telescope, Cosmic Ray Energetics and Mass, a Rapid Scatterometer, and the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System.
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September 9, 2014
The ongoing High Definition Earth Viewing investigation aboard the International Space Station allows anyone with internet access to continuously stream live views of Earth directly to their desktop or mobile internet device.
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September 2, 2014
The space station's Hyperspectral Imager for the Coastal Ocean (HICO) instrument can help research harmful algal blooms, similar to recent concerns in Lake Erie. HICO provides a way for researchers to see 90 wavelengths of light not visible to humans.
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August 26, 2014
ACE-M-1, the first in a series of such investigations aboard the space station, was designed to help researchers understand how to use small colloidal particles as stabilizers in products. The goal: to improve shelf-life stability.
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