Zero-G Partners With NASA To Make Weightless Flight Experiments
Zero Gravity has finally struck a brand new partnership with American space company NASA. Source link...
Tag : Flight
Utah Saves on Mexican Drugs; Patients Tweak Consent Forms; Flight Delays Waste Organs
<![CDATA[]]>(MedPage Today) — Welcome to the latest edition of Investigative Roundup, highlighting some of the best investigative reporting on healthcare each week. Utah Pays Patients...
The Science Behind Butterfly Wings And How They Dont Overheat
A new study reveals that butterfly wings actually have special structures that stop them from overheating under the hot sun. Source link...
Aeromedical retrieval of trauma patients: Impact of flight path model on estimates of population coverage
Simplistic circular flight time isochrones around trauma centers and helicopter bases provide overly optimistic estimates of population coverage. Using the ellipse model, including allowance for...
'Plain Butchery'; Psych Horror Hospital? Groped in Flight
<![CDATA[]]>(MedPage Today) — This weekly roundup features arrests, criminal proceedings, and other reports alleging improper or questionable conduct by healthcare professionals. An appeals court shot...
Flight Attendant Hopefuls in South Korea Are So Desperate to Get the Job They’re Having Plastic Surgery
In South Korea, a career as a flight attendant is said to be so sought after and the competition so fierce that would-be cabin crew...
Leaky gut and space flight – the mechanism revealed
A new study on the effects of simulated microgravity, the condition that astronauts face in space, interferes with the epithelial barrier of the intestine, and...
Effects of FABP knockdown on flight performance of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Sanjeeva Rajapakse, David Qu, Ahmed Sayed Ahmed, Jutta Rickers-Haunerland, and Norbert H. Haunerland During migratory flight, desert locusts rely on fatty acids as their predominant...
Huffin and puffin: seabirds use large bills to dissipate heat from energetically demanding flight [SHORT COMMUNICATION]
Hannes A. Schraft, Shannon Whelan, and Kyle H. Elliott Endothermic animals regulate body temperature by balancing metabolic heat production and heat exchange with the environment....
Sonar strobe groups and buzzes are produced before powered flight is achieved in the juvenile big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Heather W. Mayberry, Paul A. Faure, and John M. Ratcliffe Laryngeally echolocating bats produce a rapid succession of echolocation calls just before landing. These landing...
Effects of FABP knockdown on flight performance of the desert locust, Schistocerca gregaria [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Sanjeeva Rajapakse, David Qu, Ahmed Sayed Ahmed, Jutta Rickers-Haunerland, and Norbert H. Haunerland During migratory flight, desert locusts rely on fatty acids as their predominant...
Huffin and puffin: seabirds use large bills to dissipate heat from energetically demanding flight [SHORT COMMUNICATION]
Hannes A. Schraft, Shannon Whelan, and Kyle H. Elliott Endothermic animals regulate body temperature by balancing metabolic heat production and heat exchange with the environment....
Sonar strobe groups and buzzes are produced before powered flight is achieved in the juvenile big brown bat, Eptesicus fuscus [RESEARCH ARTICLE]
Heather W. Mayberry, Paul A. Faure, and John M. Ratcliffe Laryngeally echolocating bats produce a rapid succession of echolocation calls just before landing. These landing...
Fight or flight response may originate in our bones
A new study suggests that the main coordinator of the body’s fight-or-flight response is a hormone called osteocalcin, which is secreted by bone. Source link...
Towards autonomy: A recommender system for the determination of trim and flight parameters for Seagliders
Anderlini, E; Harris, C; Phillips, AB; Lorenzo Lopez, A; Woo, M; Thomas, G; (2019) Towards autonomy: A recommender system for the determination of trim and...