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NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months: How space changes the body
Nine months in space can permanently alter the body, leaving astronauts with possible long-term health effects.
What happens to the human body after nine months in space?
NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore are finally on track for their long-awaited return to Earth. And they must ...
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NASA atronauts return after 9 months: What happens to the human body in space?
Astronauts’ skeletons can also be affected without Earth’s gravity. Bones can start to demineralize and lose their strength, ...
The New York Times28d
Trillions of Viruses Live in Your Body. A.I. Is Trying to Find Them.
Scientists estimate that tens of trillions of viruses live inside of us ... “They’re in a partnership.” In the human body, for example, phages typically don’t exterminate their host ...
The Washington Post4d
The many, many reasons space travel is bad for the human body
After Scott Kelly spent a year on the International Space Station, the astronaut returned to Earth in 2016 shorter, more nearsighted, lighter and with new symptoms of heart disease that his ...
The New York Times26d
The Artists Finding New Ways to Depict the Human Body
At the time, the idea of a universal body had become passé. “There is no ‘human’ body anymore,” the art historian W.J.T. Mitchell wrote in 1995, “there is the gendered body, the ...