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March 5, 2014
Researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., developed a sophisticated piece of flight hardware called a Lightning Imaging Sensor to detect and locate lightning over the tropical region of the globe.
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March 3, 2014
Some tumors seem to be much less aggressive in space compared to their behavior on Earth, which could help scientists understand the mechanism involved and develop drugs targeting tumors that don't respond to current treatments.
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February 28, 2014
A new study, MicroRNA Expression Profiles in Cultured Human Fibroblast in Space - Micro-7 for short - will examine the effect of gravity on DNA damage and repair.
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January 6, 2014
The Antibiotic Effectiveness in Space investigation, scheduled to launch in January aboard the first contracted Orbital resupply flight to the space station, is a systematic attempt to probe the reasons for antibiotic resistance in space.
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November 15, 2013
NASA uses the common fruit fly--Drosophila melanogaster--as a biomedical research model that can reveal the basis for health and disease in many animals, including humans, because we share the basic biochemical machinery of life.
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October 30, 2013
The International Space Station (ISS)-RapidScat isn't your average NASA Earth science mission
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August 1, 2013
The Optical Payload for Lasercomm Science (OPALS) will test the use of laser optics to transfer information to the ground. The switch from radio frequency to a laser beam could improve communication data rates by a factor of 10 to 100.
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July 29, 2013
The Expedition 36 crew completed packing the Materials International Space Station Experiment-8 (MISSE-8) Payload Experiment Container (PEC) and Optical Reflector Materials Experiment-III (ORMatE-III) after it was retrieved during the spacewalk.
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September 27, 2010
Anticipating the coming interstellar advertising boom, award-winning discount TV ad agency Cheap TV Spots stakes its claim with a new, Moon-based branch.
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