10 October 2016
Risk of chronic dementia for astronauts heading to Mars
... astronomers on a long-haul trip to Mars say scientists. Studies by scientists at University of California (UCl) probing a phenomenon called "space brain,” have found that exposure to highly energetic charged particles causes significant long-term...
09 September 2020
The brain reorganises itself in space but is not destroyed, new study says
... as methylation. Despite landmark studies such as this, little is known about how well the brain copes when exposed to long durations in space. Past studies that have been conducted on astronauts have generally been carried out with...