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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine is set to open the ninth annual International Space Station Research and Development Conference (ISSRDC) at 10 a.m. EDT Thursday, Aug. 27, as the microgravity laboratory…
Research News Bees are emerging later in the spring than flowers August 25, 2020 Bees and flowers seem inseparable harbingers of spring, but what happens when pollinators emerge later than…
Research News Low-power collision detector mimics locust avoidance response August 25, 2020 Plagues of locusts fly across the sky to attack crops, but the individual insects do not collide with…
Research News Surprisingly, stony coral sperm and eggs share similar genetic functions August 25, 2020 During coral mass spawning events, which are in sync with the moon’s cycle, stony coral…
NASA has assigned astronaut Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a mission to the International Space Station. Read…
THULE AIR BASE, Greenland — Contractors stationed at Thule Air Base, Greenland, responded to a distress call from a commercial ship Monday, Aug. 3, saving all six members of its…
Research News Antibiotic may be a metabolic switch that affects tumor lipids August 24, 2020 An enzyme can be used as a metabolically responsive “switch” that decreases tumor growth, according…
Research News Asteroid measures 10 to 20 feet across, roughly the size of an SUV August 24, 2020 On August 16, 2020, the Zwicky Transient Facility, a robotic survey camera…