October 2024
Lunar construction with regolith and robots
... thin section shows that the primordial magmatic texture appears altered by tectonic and metamorphic events: plagioclase crystals show recrystallisation due to tectonic stress (Figure 3), with some larger clasts remaining in the finer feldspar matrix...
October 2024
Off-Earth risks to the human skeleton
... microgravity become active at the tissue, cellular and molecular level: this includes osteocitic osteolysis, collagen-crystal uncoupling, slowing down of osteoblastic histogenesis, reducing calcium intestinal absorption and kidney reabsorption, and...
11 December 2015
ISS Crew have undocked and are heading for Earth
... on the station alongside, along with conducting around 30 scientific experiments. This will include growing protein crystals, melting metal alloys in a weightless environment and measuring the effects of brain pressure whilst being in space...
23 December 2015
First new 'ground truth' in 40 years as Chinese rover Yuto presents analysis of moon rocks
..., or hybridise, two different sources," said Jolliff. Scientists are thus suggesting that late in the magma-ocean crystallization process, iron-rich pyroxene and ilmenite, which formed late and at the crust-mantle boundary, might...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
... will have some element of science or technology in it, from computer coding, maths demonstrations, fitness, nutrition to growing crystals. Pesquet, who is championing the cause for science- and space-based careers, is determined to make Proxima...
20 February 2017
SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully on its way to the ISS
... craft is also carrying research materials that includes an experiment to develop medicines that counter drug resistance and a crystal growth experiment that will crystallise a monoclonal antibody that is undergoing clinical trials for the treatment...
