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(Photo credit: USGS)

The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Michelson Interferometer for Global High-Resolution Thermospheric Imaging (MIGHTI) payload launched on NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) mission to study the effects of terrestrial weather and solar influences on the Earth’s ionosphere from a height of about 350 miles. (Photo credit: NASA)

Each technology presented at the 2019 Technology Innovation Showcase at ORNL shows promise as a breakthrough with significant commercial potential. (Photo credit: Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy)

Researchers from the RDCRN-supported Myasthenia Gravis Rare Disease Network are studying rare, chronic autoimmune diseases that affect how well nerves and muscles communicate with each other. Neuromuscular junctions, where motor nerves (green) send signals to muscles (red), are shown here. (Photo credit: Xiangyang Zhang, Ph.D., The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences)