Scientists Levitate Baby Mice For Science
NASA scientists have been conducting experiments using magnetic fields to levitate infant mice, partly to study the effects of microgravity happening mammalian organisms and partly because they can.
Disbursal time weightless in space might seem totally awesome (and let's face information technology, it probably is entirely awesome) but it comes at a terms: Overly much time in microgravity tends to devolve unused bones and muscles that astronauts tend to need once they return to Terra firma. So, how do you run tests along ways to prevent this critical atrophying barring pricey space travel or that really cool weightlessness simulator (that only gives you few minutes of microgravity at a time anyway)?
The answer? You levitate animals – with science. Researchers at the Super acid Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, practical on behalf of NASA, used a superconducting attracter that generates a field powerful enough to levitate the piss deep down living animals to levitate a three-hebdomad old shiner and observe what happened.
"It actually kicked around and started to spin, and without friction, it could spin quicker and faster, and we cogitate that ready-made it flat more disoriented," said researcher Yuanming Liu. Further tests up to our necks minor sedation to stay fresh the animals calm, though the researchers observed that the mice were able to acclimatize to the lack of gravity quickly, straight without being insensible.
"We're trying to meet what kind of physiological impact is due to elongated microgravity, and also what rather countermeasures might work against it for astronauts," Liu said. "If we can contribute to the future human being exploration of space, that would be very exciting."
Though research on levitation has been already done with grasshoppers and frogs, mice (as mammals) are much closer biologically to humans (and uncomparable mustiness imagine that they look much cuter when spinning around in mid-atmosphere, as well). This, of course, brings U.S. one step closer to individual antigravity devices.
(MSNBC)
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