enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Animals in space - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals_in_space

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 December 2024. Miss Baker, a squirrel monkey, rode a Jupiter IRBM (scale model of rocket shown) into space in 1959. Landmarks for animals in space 1947: First animals in space (fruit flies) 1949: First primate and first mammal in space 1950: First mouse in space 1951: First dogs in space 1957: First ...

  3. Orbiting Frog Otolith - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting_Frog_Otolith

    The frogs, housed in the centrifuge, are in the liquid loop. Moving from the lung to the frogs, the loop contains water and dissolved oxygen; moving from the frogs back to the lung, it contains water and free CO 2. A double layer of polyurethane foam lining the interior of the centrifuge prevents frog waste matter from fouling the water ...

  4. Rain of animals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_of_animals

    A rain of fish was recorded in Singapore in 1861, when during three days of torrential rain numerous fish were found in puddles Raining snakes, 1680.. A rain of animals is a rare meteorological phenomenon in which flightless animals fall from the sky.

  5. List of artificial objects leaving the Solar System - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects...

    The probe passed the heliopause at 121 AU on August 25, 2012, to enter interstellar space. [7] Voyager 1 is still active. In about 40,000 years the star Gliese 445 (AC +79 3888) and the Sun will fly past each other at a distance of 3.45 light-years, after being currently 17.6 light-years from each other, [ 8 ] with Voyager 1 coming as close as ...

  6. Fruit flies in space - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_flies_in_space

    Drosophila melanogaster, the common fruit fly, has been used to study the effects of spaceflight on living organisms.. On a July 9, 1946, suborbital V-2 rocket flight, fruit flies became the first living and sentient [citation needed] [] organisms to go to space, and on February 20, 1947, fruit flies safely returned from a suborbital space flight, which paved the way for human exploration.

  7. Food poisoning is extremely common. But that doesn't ... - AOL

    www.aol.com/food-poisoning-extremely-common...

    Few things will put a damper on your vacation or holiday faster than food poisoning.The intense stomach pain, rushing to the toilet and feeling relegated to bed keeps just about everyone out of ...

  8. Flying frog - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_frog

    Wallace's flying frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus). A flying frog (also called a gliding frog) is a frog that has the ability to achieve gliding flight.This means it can descend at an angle less than 45° relative to the horizontal.

  9. ‘Why we never got Ebola’ by Huffington Post

    testkitchen.huffingtonpost.com/ebola

    Powered by. Why We Never Got Ebola: A Christmas Story. by Tim Cunningham