Posts by Jane Taylor
The Impact of Gravity on Life: Is Gravity necessary for life as we know it?
This is the ninth post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Life most likely will look and, perhaps, move quite differently…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: What happens to life when gravity changes? Adult Humans
This is the eighth post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Early predictions of the response of humans to spaceflight assumed…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: What happens to life when gravity changes? Vertebrate Development
This is the seventh post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Studies on Earth and in space suggest that gravity has…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: What happens to life when gravity changes?
This is the fourth post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Gravitational acceleration has been constant throughout the ~4 billion or…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: What is Gravity?
This is the third post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. In 1665-1666, Sir Isaac Newton first developed the universal law…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: What happens to life when gravity changes? Cells
This is the fifth post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Physics predicts that altered gravity will not cause any changes…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: Introduction
This is the second post in our series The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. Read the series in its entirety here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Gravity has been constant throughout the history of Earth. This…
Read MoreThe Impact of Gravity on Life: Abstract
We are thrilled to share with you The Impact of Gravity on Life, a paper written by Dr. Emily R. Morey-Holton, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. It is published here in blog posts tagged Impact of Gravity on Life. Gravity is a well-known, but little understood, physical force. Its intensity and direction have…
Read MoreGravity and Exercise: Going Upside Down
Our language is filled with gravity-related idioms. We fall down drunk, we are head over heels in love, we fall on our sword, we give up, we are over the moon. These idioms express the mishaps we experience in terms of being out of balance with gravity – as if gravity was some kind of…
Read MoreGravity, the Mind, and Meditation
Gravity is an indisputable force that has an impact on everything from the subtle foam atop your café cortado to the vertical alignment of skyscrapers. It is necessary for life as we know it, but is it also essential to our perceptions of that life? In this part of our series on gravity and the…
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