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NASA-tested vest could cut astronauts' radiation exposure by 60% during major solar storms

The AstroRad vest flew around the moon in 2022 on Zohar, one of two female manikins aboard NASA's Orion capsule. Researchers compared Zohar's readings with those from Helga, a second manikin that wore no vest. Both contained thousands of radiation sensors. Read Entire Article

NASA-tested vest could cut astronauts' radiation exposure by 60% during major solar storms

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Caught on camera: Sand cats may have a ‘sizable population’ in Qatar

Muhammad Ali Nawaz didn’t expect to see so many cats. Nawaz, a wildlife ecologist at Qatar University, had set out to survey Qatar for the sand cat, a tiny, seldom-studied felid that lives in deserts across Southwest and Central Asia, northern Africa and the Arabian Peninsula. Though there were anecdotal reports of the species in […]

A Decade of Advances in Single-Cell Functional Immunomics

In this August issue Thought Leader article Tania Konry, PhD, cofounder of Feromics and associate professor at Northeastern University, lends his insight on how the convergence of functional biology, AI, and translational medicine is beginning to reshape how immune systems are studied, modeled, and therapeutically engineered.

Total Solar Eclipse in Sunflower Field

This composite image shows the progression of a total solar eclipse over San Millán de los Caballeros, Spain on, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. A total solar eclipse swept across parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Russia, the Atlantic Ocean, Spain, and a small corner of Portugal. A partial eclipse was visible in parts of the U.S., […]

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