As space travel gains traction and astronauts spend increasing amounts of time in space, studying its effects on health has become increasingly critical. Is space travel truly safe? Far from ...

As humans begin to colonize space, it's inevitable that some will suffer a cardiac arrest. Space CPR conducted in weightlessness will be crucial to save their lives -- and researchers say they've now ...

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The junior space cadet may scream out in the night as he dreams man’s ancient dream of falling through space, but he usually wakes up, at worst, on the floor, with nothing more than a slight bump. The ...

Dutch chemist Paul Poodt has developed two attractive alternatives for allowing protein crystals to grow under weightless conditions. If the crystals are grown upside down in a strong magnetic field, ...

World Space Week Youth Inspiration Program Joins Students from Bahrain, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Colombia, Czech Republic, Thailand, China, Norway and United States to Symbolically Launch Humankind’s Next ...

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