Daniel Oberhaus
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Extraterrestrial babies? Scientists want to know how microgravity would affect human reproduction
The plane’s rapid descent created a microgravity environment in the cockpit and for a few seconds, [pilot Daniel] González felt ...
We need pollinators to grow food in space, but bees may not survive harsh extraterrestrial environment, study shows
One of the world’s newest space analogs is inside a white ziggurat on top of a former nuclear bunker in ...
Searching for alien intelligence and how dolphins can help
The return to dolphins as a model for alien intelligence came in 1999, when SETI Institute astronomer Laurance Doyle proposed using information ...
Dream state: Researchers manipulate ‘borderland’ between waking and sleeping
There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but ...
20 years after Dolly the sheep, human cloning is no closer
On July 5, 1996, after 276 failed attempts, a team of scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of ...
Changes in gene expression suggest plants may ‘feel’ touch
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