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LONDON (Reuters) - British scientists believe microscopic worms which are biologically very similar to humans may be the key to helping humans colonize other planets like Mars by giving clues on coping with long-term space living.A team of scientists led by Nathaniel ...

It's a chip from the apple tree said to have inspired Isaac Newton's theory of gravity.. The Royal Society in London lent the 10-centimetre fragment to British-born astronaut Piers Sellers to help publicise the society's 350th anniversary. According to a 1752 biography ...

A piece of physicist Sir Isaac Newton's apple tree is to defy gravity by being carried into space on the next NASA shuttle mission.The 4-inch-long wood sample, which is normally held in the Royal Society archives in London, comes from the original ...

Isaac Newton's famous apple tree breaking loose from gravity on shuttle Atlantis' last flightSir Isaac Newton's famous apple tree is about to leave gravity behind.Flying aboard space shuttle Atlantis next week will be a 4-inch sliver of the tree from which an ...

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