Space travel depletes red blood cells and bone, but bone marrow fat may come to the rescue
From The Ottawa Hospital 22/08/23 A study of 14 astronauts suggests that while space travel depletes red blood cells and bone, the body can eventually replenish them back on Earth with the help of fat stored in the bone marrow. The study, published in Nature Communications, has important implications for health in space and on […]
Moon birth supercomputer simulation
By Charles Carter, 06/10/22 Pioneers at NASA’s Ames Research Center have created a new high-resolution simulation which shows the Moon could have formed within hours of a collision between Earth and Mars-sized body Theia. Previous prevailing theories claimed that the Moon formed months or years after the collision and mostly from debris from Theia, with […]
NASA smash spacecraft into asteroid in planetary defense test
By Charles Carter, 27/09/22 Innovators at NASA have smashed their DART spacecraft into asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in the world’s first planetary defense test of asteroid deflection. They aim to prove that humanity can change the course of future asteroids that are headed for earth to avoid disaster, by intentionally hitting them with spacecraft. The team […]