News tagged with space loss
Temperature differences give rise to electricity
More than half of today's energy consumption is squandered in useless waste heat, such as the heat from refrigerators and all sorts of gadgets and the heat from factories and power plants. The energy losses ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Bone loss prevention experiment on the last space shuttle flight
Researchers in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering will be at the Kennedy Space Center for the last space shuttle launch of the NASA program ...
Jul 05, 2011 |
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Improving slumber on the space station with sleep-long
(PhysOrg.com) -- It is difficult to sleep in a strange place, especially when you are far from home. Just imagine if you were approximately 210 miles from home and free floating in a spacecraft orbiting the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2011 |
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Space sensor helps produce 'greener' glass
What has making glass in common with space exploration? The special technology to measure oxygen atoms outside space vehicles is now being used in the glass industry to produce super-efficient energy-saving ...
May 03, 2011 |
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NASA Studies Find Omega-3 May Help Reduce Bone Loss
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA-sponsored studies have found that omega-3 fatty acids found in fish oil may play a role in mitigating bone breakdown that occurs during spaceflight and in osteoporosis.
May 10, 2010 |
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Astronauts to blast off to expanded space station
A Belgian, a Canadian and a Russian blast off for the International Space Station on Wednesday as Russia steps up its rocket launches to support a doubling of the station's crew.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 26, 2009 |
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Scientists one step closer to stopping bone loss during spaceflight
(PhysOrg.com) -- Bone loss in long-duration spaceflight has been identified for decades as a significant problem affecting astronauts. More recently, scientists have found that the absence of gravity is causing astronauts ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Chondroitin slows progression and relieves symptoms of knee osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis (OA) causes disability and is a major public health problem. A new study examined the effect of chondroitins 4 and 6 sulfate (CS) on OA progression and symptoms. CS, unlike other chondroitin sulfate products ...
Jan 29, 2009 |
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