June 2022
Protecting crews in interplanetary ships and space colonies from the space environment
... the impact of the heavy charged particles of galactic rays on the brain, astronauts may lose their coordination and ... bury it in several metres of regolith to protect it from cosmic rays during the 6-10-month journey to Mars. However, it may not be...
January 2023
The effects of spaceflight on the female body
...remodelling. The comprehensive approach to studying the condition of the bone system that we developed included bone X-ray densitometry; blood and urine analysis of neuro-immunoendocrine regulation of physiological processes including thyroid and sex...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
..., driven by an enhanced flux of cosmic dust particles and cosmic rays, which caused global cooling and the destruction of the ozone layer,...other in the inter-planetary space to produce ~GeV cosmic rays. At the same time, the flux of cosmic dust ...
04 April 2016
Astronomers have for the first time found gas-phase ammonia in a protoplanetary disc
... other three models (Cp, Ep, or Em – again, see illustration above), as TW Hya is considered to have a strong X-Ray flux, it is possible that X-Rays could be invoked to break apart molecular nitrogen allowing it to be sequestered into NH3. The team...
