Health & Fitness
Hey everyone, things are a little different now than they were a couple weeks ago when we recorded this one. COVID-19 is impacting us all, and we just want to say that we hope you and yours are well. Thank you for choosing to spend your time with us every week. We will keep trying to do our part to make you smile and teach you stuff along the way. We love you guys! Take care of yourselves. Space… it’s big, it’s confusing, and there isn’t any gravity! That’s why we have a dedicated team of people up in the International Space Station running all kinds of experiments to try and figure out just what the heck is even going on up there. You truly have no idea how much of us ordering Popeye’s I had to cut out of this. This was definitely our longest recording session ever and I was livid! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail] https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187 https://phys.org/news/2011-03-chicken-fat-biofuel-eco-friendly-jet.html https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html [Fact Off] Wake Shield Facility https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405 https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.html https://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxy https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyes https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148X Image: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095 Mouse sperm experiment https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988 http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/ [Ask the Science Couch] Human pregnancy https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/prenatal.pdf https://www.livescience.com/33047-space-sex-pregnancy.html https://www.thoughtco.com/can-women-get-pregnant-in-space-3072590 NASA sperm study https://futurism.com/sperm-space-nasa Space childbirth startup https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/space-childbirth-babies/579064/ Other animal development https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/what-space-jellyfish-tell-us-about-interplanetary-travel/ https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/space-born-jellyfish-hate-life-earth/ https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnjkkw/making-babies-in-space-may-be-a-terrible-idea [Butt One More Thing] Flatworms in space https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/reg2.79