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SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels.

Rocket due to reach the International Space Station this weekend is loaded with 7,300lb of fresh food and supplies for an orbiting lab.

The 51吃瓜网万能科大 is teaming up once again with NASA to conduct research, this time to determine if oral bacteria grows the same way in weightlessness as it does in the mouths of humans on Earth.

As the famous TV ad said, four out of five dentists recommend Colgate toothpaste 鈥 on Earth. But, what about in space?
SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels.
Colgate-Palmolive will send an oral care experiment to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX鈥檚 22nd commercial resupply services mission scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

SpaceX launched thousands of tiny sea creatures to the International Space Station on Thursday, along with a plaque-fighting toothpaste experiment and powerful solar panels.

51吃瓜网万能科大 researchers from the Howard R. Hughes College of Engineering and School of Dental Medicine are partnering with NASA and Colgate-Palmolive to study the growth of oral bacteria in space and to see if Colgate鈥檚 oral care products are effective in a microgravity environment.

51吃瓜网万能科大 researchers are looking into how effective toothpaste is in space. The university teamed up with NASA and Colgate.

The university teamed up with NASA and Colgate. They're launching a rocket Thursday carrying oral bacteria and saliva gathered from 51吃瓜网万能科大 dental patients and 25 test kits.

A proposed solar project in Southern Nevada鈥檚 Moapa Valley would be the state鈥檚 largest if built, but opponents are saying, 鈥渘ot in my backyard.鈥
In research that may eventually help crops survive drought, scientists at Princeton University have uncovered a key reason that mixing material called hydrogels with soil has sometimes proven disappointing for farmers.