Category: Space science
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Battling Addiction
Addiction is a neurological disease that affects millions. How can we help them? From the desk of Dr. Teresa Franklin I earned my PhD in 1999 from Hahnemann University in Phila, PA, USA. Since then, I have worked mainly at the Center for the Studies of Addiction in the Department of Psychiatry at University of…
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An Absolute Space Girl
What is it like to work at NASA? Are you as inspired by the movie Hidden Figures as I was? Meet Holly Griffith, a real life engineer who works at NASA. Listen to her talk about what she does at NASA, life as a #WomanInSTEM, and the most nerve wracking thing she has ever done…
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Space flight technology benefiting human health
Using space technology right here on Earth. When individual human cells were cultured in the microgravity environment of spaceflight in the 1990s, scientists noticed that they started to aggregate and organize as structures that resembled the native tissue from which the cells were derived. This was very different to cells grown under normal gravity conditions,…