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Students Launch Cockroaches and Cameras Into Space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of cockroaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The cockroaches ...
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New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...
OSU students build and launch a sensor into space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2008 |
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Students from OSU's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and successfully launched a cosmic radiation detector this summer that reached the edge of outer space. Carried by a helium-filled balloon 12 inches ...
Study calls for 'as soon as possible' treatment standard for heart attack patients
May 20, 2009 |
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Once in hospital, heart attack patients should be treated without delay to cut their risk of death, ideally within even less than the 90 minutes currently recommended by clinical guidelines, say researchers in a paper published ...
Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...
Brits test balloon broadband relays
Oct 19, 2005 |
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Engineers in Britain will be testing the ability of high-altitude balloons to relay high-speed broadband service.
Exploring how the body adapts to exercise at altitude-hypoxia affects muscle and nerve responses
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Exercise requires the integrated activity of every organ and tissue in the body, and understanding how these respond to the decreased oxygen levels present at moderate to high altitude is the focus of the current special ...
Dialysis patients residing at higher altitude have lower rate of death
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Compared to dialysis patients living near sea level, dialysis patients living at an altitude higher than 4,000 feet have a 12-15 percent lower rate of death, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA.
Like a rock: New mineral named for UW astronomer
Jun 13, 2008 |
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The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a University of Washington astronomer who revolutionized research on ...
Risky business: Stressed men more likely to gamble
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 01, 2009 |
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Stressed out, dude? Don't go to Vegas.
NASA Balloon Mission Tunes in to a Cosmic Radio Mystery
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 07, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Listening to the early universe just got harder. A team led by Alan Kogut of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., today announced the discovery of cosmic radio noise that ...
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