In 1994, as a much younger self, I had the opportunity to work with a team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) on the…

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The musical “Rent” famously calculated 525,600 minutes in a year, but how do you measure a year in heartbeats? The human heart is a…

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Ya-Ting Liao has always been fascinated by fire. Even as a child growing up in Taiwan, she was interested in the science that makes…

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Transportation is crucial to our society, yet it is something most of us take for granted. There are more than 1.4 billion cars worldwide…

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Standing outside looking upward, I gaze intently into the dark night until I finally see it. It looks like a small bright dot moving…

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People usually think of bone and muscle as very different things. Bones support the body and give it shape, while muscles provide the strength…

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To take a shot at a “holy grail” of cancer drug discovery, researchers from Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research set their sights on…

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A year before Orbit Fab completed tests on the International Space Station (ISS) for hardware designed to refuel spacecraft in orbit, Furphy—as the project…

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In Greek mythology, Pandora’s Box releases disease and other miseries into the world. But in real life, a very different type of box uses…

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To advance scientific discovery in new ways, scientists are taking their experiments and labs to an environment unlike any other: the International Space Station…

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Computing advances continue to push the envelope for ever-smaller, ruggedized electronics that must thrive in extreme conditions, whether inside jet engines, nuclear reactors, geothermal…

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On Earth, scientists are used to having high-performance computers at their fingertips. Such computing capabilities are critical to analyze the rich data from experiments…

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