October 2024
The Human Spaceship - Off Balance
... extreme conditions of Antarctica, but these should not be mistaken for actual space conditions. Vision factors in altered gravity Compared with Earth, space is like a giant optical illusion, causing visual aberrations and physical alterations Space...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
... a breakdown of General Relativity and deviations from the law of gravity? What is the nature of dark matter and its properties? What...for a better understanding of dark energy, dark matter and gravity and their role in the past and future evolution of...
04 January 2016
Researchers find a new way to calculate the pull of gravity at the surface of a star
... Canada's MOST missions and will allow scientists to measure surface gravity of a star with an accuracy of about four per cent... based on its brightness variations, tells you its surface gravity and your weight on far-flung distant stars. Image credit...
April 2025
A bun in the (space) oven - Reasons not to get pregnant while going around Earth at 7.8 kilometres per second
.... But nobody has ever had a zero gravity or low-gravity pregnancy and progressing from current knowledge levels to...simulations can be done on Earth, but it turns out simulating altered gravity is really hard Now, take all of the above, and add ...
August 2017
Planning for health, sex and sleep on a future Mars colony
...may also aggravate the effects of bone loss due to reduced gravity conditions. The concept of humans living on Mars is shifting ... those symptoms may be less severe in the partial gravity Mars environment, the confined nature of the colony’s habitat...
July 2019
Science and sensation in microgravity
... with their experiments and collect data in conditions that would be impossible to simulate on Earth. Discovery flights Zero Gravity Corporation (Zero-G Corp) in the USA became the first to offer commercial weightless flights to the general public...
