April 23, 2024
Alan Grodzinsky sees things differently. When he uses fluorescent dyes to test cell viability in the cartilage tissue he...
September 29, 2023
Plants don’t have bones or muscles or brains, but they’re always on the move. Driven by their genetics, some are hardwired...
They say you’re only as old as you feel, but in reality, you’re only as old as your immune cells. Even though the calendar...
What can we discover about phenomena on Earth when soaring approximately 250 miles above our planet’s surface? As you will...
It’s 10 p.m., and researchers and students excitedly gather inside a lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in New...
June 29, 2023
Ya-Ting Liao has always been fascinated by fire. Even as a child growing up in Taiwan, she was interested in the science that...
Transportation is crucial to our society, yet it is something most of us take for granted. There are more than 1.4 billion cars...
June 22, 2022
To advance scientific discovery in new ways, scientists are taking their experiments and labs to an environment unlike any...
December 23, 2019
I am very excited to introduce this special issue of Upward to you, as its focus is on materials research in space. My work at...
The opportunity to do biomedical research on the International Space Station (ISS) is so far outside the realm of possibility...
July 11, 2019
Humankind has made incredible technological advancements over the past two centuries. However, many of these advancements have...
June 26, 2018
Three years ago, a two-headed worm returned from the International Space Station (ISS), and in the summer of 2017, the worm...
