A University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center researcher, in partnership with NASA, will measure the body shape and mass composition of astronauts in space. John Shepherd and his team will use […]
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Away Team Tech: Hansel and Gretel’s Breadcrumb Trick Inspires Robotic Exploration Of Caves On Mars And Beyond
House hunting on Mars could soon become a thing, and researchers at the University of Arizona are already in the business of scouting real estate that future astronauts could use […]
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Bioinspired Earthworm Robot: A Droid To Search For Subsurface Planetary Life?
Researchers at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) in Genoa has realized a new soft robot inspired by the biology of earthworms, which is able to crawl thanks […]
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Tricorder Tech: Better Tools Will Be Needed To Determine Evidence Of Ancient Life On Mars
Current state-of-the-art instrumentation being sent to Mars to collect and analyze evidence of life might not be sensitive enough to make accurate assessments, according to a research team co-led by […]
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Away Team Tech: The BASALT Research Program
The articles associated with this Special Collection focus on the NASA BASALT (Biologic Analog Science Associated with Lava Terrains) Research Program, which aims at answering the question, “How do we […]
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Tricorder Tech: High-voltage Cryo-electron Microscopy Reveals Tiny Secrets Of Giant Viruses
Despite their name, giant viruses are difficult to visualize in detail. They are too big for conventional electron microscopy, yet too small for optical microscopy used to study larger specimens. […]
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Tricorder Tech: NIH Software Assembles Complete Genome Sequences On-demand
National Institutes of Health researchers have developed and released an innovative software tool to assemble truly complete (i.e., gapless) genome sequences from a variety of species.
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Tricorder Tech: 3D Printed Compact Imaging Platform Validated for Space Research with C. elegans
In this newly published article, Dr. Siva Vanapalli of Texas Tech University reports on the testing and performance of a 3D printed compact imaging platform (CIP) that is integrated with […]
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NASA’s Quick Start Guide To Space Station Payload Design
This easy-to-use guide provides best practices and “tricks of the trade” to help the payload developer successfully work with NASA on designing, developing, and flying a payload on the space […]
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Away Team Training: Turning Astronauts Into Planetary Explorers
ESA’s geology training course PANGAEA has come of age with the publication of a paper that describes the quest for designing the best possible geology training for the next astronauts […]