Laboratory Research and Experiments

Scientists in labs conducting various experiments with chemical substances, tools, and protective gear in vibrant, high-tech environments.

A technician checks the production of high-quality quartz glass blanks, which are the basic material for making optical fibers.
A technician checks the production of high-quality quartz glass blanks, which are the basic material for making optical fibers.
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A92180 EG&G SDO SUPPORT FACILITIES CP-65 FIBER OPTICS PERCY (Project Engineer) JAN 15 92 EG&G/NTS PHOTO LAB Publication Date: 1/15/1992 CP-65; CP-65 FIBER OPTICS; EDGERTON, GERMESHAUSEN & GRIER; EG&G; EG&G SDO SUPPORT ACTIVITIES; EG&G SDO SUPPORT FACILITIES; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT & INSTRUMENTS; EQUIPMENT (SNL); FACILITIES; FACILITIES (SNL); INSTRUMENTS; INSTRUMENTS & EQUIPMENT; INSTRUMENTS AND EQUIPMENT; NEVADA; NEVADA TEST SITE; NTS; NUCLEAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY; NUCLEAR TESTING; SUPPORT ACTIVITIES; SUPPORT FACILITIES; TEST SITES; UGT; UNDERGROUND TESTING historical images. 1972 - 2012. Department of Energy. National Nuclear Security Administration. Photographs Related to Nuclear Weapons Testing at the Nevada Test Site.
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Scientist injecting liquid in petri dish
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Portrait of a male researcher
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Engineer with small microscope examining model while standing at industry
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Laboratory Copyright: xJagdshxShinde/DinodiaxPhotox
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Agronomist standing in front of wall at laboratory
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Portrait of smiling biologist woman analyzing genetically modified organism
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Dr. Cheryl Nickerson of Tulane University is studying the effects of simulated low-g on a well-known pathogen, Salmonella typhimurium, a bacterium that causes two to four million cases of gastrointestinal illness in the United States each year. While most healthy people recover readily, S. typhimurium can kill people with weakened immune systems. Thus, a simple case of food poisoning could disrupt a space mission. Using the NASA rotating-wall bioreactor, Nickerson cultured S. typhimurium in modeled microgravity. Mice infected with the bacterium died an average of three days faster than the control mice, indicating that S. typhimurium's virulence was enhanced by the bioreactor. Earlier research showed that 3 percent of the genes were altered by exposure to the bioreactor. Nickerson's work earned her a 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
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Reportage at the IRSN (the French public expert in nuclear and radiological risks) in Vésinet, France. Simulating a chemical accident and the emergency measures to be taken. Exposure to chemical fumes.
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Research scientist Greg Goins monitors radish growth under a sulfur-microwave light at Hangar L at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The research he is performing is one of many studies at the Biological Sciences Branch in the Spaceport Engineering and Technology Directorate at Kennedy Space Center. The branch's operations and research areas include life sciences Space Shuttle payloads, bioregenerative life-support for long-duration spaceflight and environmental/ecological stewardshi
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. Going Over the Footpad Test Data. Patrick DeGrosse and fellow engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory review data from a recent test of a full-size footpad for a future Mars lander. The 16-inch-diameter (40-centimeter-diameter) footpad was plunged into a test bed filled with 10,000 pounds (4,536 kilograms) of simulated Martian soil in order to see how deep it would sink - too far, and the lander's belly could scrape against the ground during touchdown, damaging it. The Sample Retrieval Lander, which would be central to NASA's Mars Sample Return campaign, is estimated to weigh as much as 5,016 pounds (2,275 kilograms). It would be the heaviest spacecraft ever to land on the Red Planet. In order to understand how energy would be absorbed during the landing of such a massive spacecraft, JPL engineers have been conducting these footpad drop tests. Mars Sample Return will revolutionize our understanding of Mars by bringing scientifically selected samples to Earth for study using the
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Michel Fornasier will be one of the presenters of the Cybathlon. He has a bionic hand prosthesis and demonstrates one of the Cybathlon disciplines for the media. It took Michel more than a year to master the use of his bionic hand.
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A scientist holding a molecular structure model
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ISF Space Station Mock up @ MAFC (McGowen)
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A hospital corpsman checks a plasma sample in a laboratory aboard the hospital ship USNS COMFORT (T-AH-20) during Operation Desert Storm. Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM Country: Unknown
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Fruit Fly (Drosophila sp) flying, using high speed flash
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MODEL RELEASED. Electronics research.
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A female Navy computer technician examines a tape drive system. Country: Unknown
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Scientist examining human brain glass sample while standing at clinic corridor
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Nichelle Nichols, recently hired by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to acquaint potential minority applicants throughout the United States with the oppotunities available to them in the shuttle astronaut recruitment program. Here, she familiarized herself with the treadmill, one of the devices used in the pre-flight testing of the crews. 1977. NASA Photo/
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Scientist with the Yulex Corp., makes prototypes of rubber gloves to test different formulations of guayule latex
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Astronaut Scott Kelly initiated VEG-01 B, the second crop of lettuce, on July, 8, 2015, and both Kelly and Astronaut Kjell Lindgren cared for the plants. The crop grew for 33 days. VEG-01 B included one set of six plant pillows planted with red romaine lettuce seeds. On Aug. 10, 2015, the crew harvested and consumed leaves from each plant. This was the first crop grown and consumed in NASA hardware. They harvested the rest of the plant tissue and froze it in the stations Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for ISS (MELFI) for return to Earth for further study including microbial analysis, antioxidant capacity, mineral analysis and anthocyanin concentration.
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White rabbit in scientific lab experiment
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JSC2002-E-33425 (9 August 2002) --- Astronaut John B. Herrington, STS-113 mission specialist, prepares to use virtual reality hardware in the Space Vehicle Mockup Facility at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) to rehearse some of his duties on the upcoming mission to the International Space Station (ISS). David J. Homan assisted Herrington.
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Lieutenant Commander James Newacheck, an optometrist with the Submarine Medical Research Lab, checks a sailor's vision. Base: Naval Submarine Base, Groton State: Connecticut (CT) Country: United States Of America (USA)
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Scientist in a hooded sweater intently measuring liquid from a large yellow container
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An early prototype of the Lunar Module (LM) is photographed at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center photography laboratory facility. A snapshot of state of the art photographic equipment from 1964 is revealed in this tabletop photo shoot.
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Smiling male and female scientists making heart shape with hands while standing arm in arm at laboratory
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Technician examining Neuronal cell culture in an incubator
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Bio technology, examining tissue culture flask Copyright: xMxAmirtham/DinodiaxPhotox
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Scientist examining plants in greenhouse
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Kakapo (Strigops habroptilus) nest site records being reviewed by researcher, Codfish Island, New Zealand
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Botanist, man and greenhouse for agriculture, farming and study plants or vegetables for science. Scientist, farmer or person at nursery, garden or research leaf, food experiment or ecology in nature
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Technician look for diamonds in a core sample under a microscope; Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
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1960S Man College Student In Chemistry Laboratory Looking At Solution In Beaker
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At Launch Pad 39A, members of the space shuttle Atlantis STS-122 crew view the Columbus module during terminal countdown demonstration test, or TCDT, activities. Columbus was installed in the orbiter's payload bay on Nov. 11. From left, in clean room attire, are Pilot Alan Poindexter and Mission Specialists Stanley Love, Hans Schlegel of the European Space Agency and Rex Walheim. The TCDT provides astronauts and ground crews with equipment familiarization, emergency egress training and a simulated launch countdown. On mission STS-122, Atlantis will deliver the Columbus module to the International Space Station. The European Space Agency's largest single contribution to the station, Columbus is a multifunctional, pressurized laboratory that will be permanently attached to U.S. Node 2, called Harmony. The module is approximately 23 feet long and 15 feet wide, allowing it to hold 10 large racks of experiments. The laboratory will expand the research facili
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IN THE LABORATORY, by Henry Alexander, 1885-1887, American painting, oil on canvas. The artwork shows Professor Thomas Price, (d. 1912) chemist and assayer, who was an advisor to mining companies. As a toxicologist, he was called as an expert witness in court cases (BSLOC_2018_4_99)
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Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuels) Third Class Jerroll Dyson tests the specific gravity of JP-5 fuel in the V-4 division quality assurance shop prior to using it to fuel aircraft on board USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). TRUMAN is on station in the Arabian Gulf in support of Operation SOUTHERN WATCH (OSW). OSW is the mission that enforces the coalition imposed southern "no-fly zone" over Iraq. Subject Operation/Series: SOUTHERN WATCH Base: USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
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Woman scientist in laboratory learning plants using futuristic equipment. Character experiment in scientific lab on spaceship or secret bunker, biotechnology investigations Cartoon vector illustration. Woman scientist in laboratory learning plants
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Laboratory of Thos Price Henry Alexander (1860-1895 American)
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Expedition 59 astronaut Christina Koch of NASA signs a door in the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to departing for launch on a Soyuz rocket with Nick Hague of NASA, and Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, Thursday, March 14, 2019 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Hague, Koch, and Ovchinin will launch March 14, U.S. time, on the Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-and-a-half month mission on the International Space Station.
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The first Cybathlon will be held in Switzerland in October 2016. It is a competition for athletes equipped with bionic devices (robotized prosthetic legs and arms, motorized wheelchairs, exoskeletons, bikes using electrical muscle stimulation and brain-computer interface races). This competition helps raise public awareness on the evolution of work on robotic assistive technology and strengthens exchanges between research teams. Michel Fornasier will be one of the presenters of the Cybathlon. He has a bionic hand prosthesis and demonstrates one of the Cybathlon disciplines for the media. It took Michel more than a year to master the use of his bionic hand.
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Pratima Rao lectures students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4 (USMP-4) mission (STS-87, Nov. 19 - Dec. 5, 1997) in the visitor's center set up by the Isothermal Dendritic Growth Experiment (IDGE) team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. IDGE, flown on three Space Shuttle missions, is yielding new insights into virtually all industrially relevant metal and alloy forming operations.
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Black university student examining cells and organisms under microscope lenses, researching and studying for medical science exams. Reading about biotechnology in the library. Camera A.
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Female Chinese scientist looking into a microscope
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STS093-345-008 (22-27 July 1999) --- Close-up view of the Plant Growth Investigations in Microgravity (PGIM-1) payload experiment onboard the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Columbia. The PGIM-1 monitors the space flight environment for stressful conditions that affect plant growth.
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The Mars celebration Friday, May 31, 2019, in Mars, Pennsylvania. NASA is in the small town to celebrate Mars exploration and share the agencys excitement about landing astronauts on the Moon in five years. The celebration includes a weekend of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) activities.