If you don't bring an effective brain to space and a working brain to space that will be all worthless – Alessandro Alcibiade ...

The human brain—along with every other brain for that matter—evolved with gravity as an anchor. What happens when you remove ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists who arranged for 48 human bioengineered heart tissue samples to spend 30 days at the International Space Station report evidence that the low gravity conditions in ...

After traveling hundreds of miles above Earth and spending months aboard the International Space Station, a University of Delaware experiment has returned to campus, bringing new data on how ...

As the possibility of long-duration space exploration becomes more feasible, the issue of how to preserve astronaut health during such missions is becoming increasingly critical. Recently, Russia’s ...

As plans for missions to Mars accelerate, so do questions about how the human body might cope. A return trip to the red planet would give more than enough time for someone to become pregnant and even ...

As humanity ventures further into space, creating sustainable living conditions is becoming increasingly important. Recent advancements in space station technology have led to the development of ...

All the fundamental forces are thought to be carried by a particle, but a new mathematical model suggests gravity may be a striking exception. Building on a decades-old idea, researchers have revealed ...

In space, astronauts have historically sipped coffee from pouches using straws, but NASA astronaut Don Pettit sought to ...