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New Study Shows Cosmic Rays Could Cause Alzheimer’s

January 1, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Humans explore Mars in “Distant Shores,” an illustration by NASA artist Pat Rawlins Cosmic rays from deep space could pose serious health risks to future astronauts on long-duration missions to Mars — even bringing on the memory-destroying symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, [...]

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The Moon Is Toxic

July 11, 2012

As our closest neighbor in space, a time-capsule of planetary evolution and the only world outside of Earth that humans have stepped foot on, the Moon is an obvious and ever-present location for future exploration by humans. The research that can be done on the Moon — as well as from it — will be [...]

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How Plasma Technology From Space Will Save Our Lives

May 23, 2012

It might sound obvious to anyone who’s ever played a video game in the past thirty years, but plasma has been found to be very effective at destroying some truly dangerous beasts. Except in this case, the battlefields aren’t space bases, they’re hospitals… and the creatures aren’t CGI alien monsters, they’re very real — and [...]

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Space Travel Is Bad For Your Eyes

March 14, 2012

Microgravity — or “zero-g” as it’s sometimes called — is not a natural state for the human body to live in for prolonged periods of time. But that is what today’s astronauts are often expected to do, whether while on expedition aboard Space Station or during a future voyage to the Moon or Mars. A [...]

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