02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... preliminary findings. One of the studies focusing on genetic, epigenetic and transcriptional dynamics (how cells regulate physiological processes) of each twin, revealed that space travel causes an increase in methylation, the process of turning...
06 July 2018
ESA investigates health risk of living on the Moon
... safe at all it would seem. When the Apollo astronauts returned from the Moon, they experienced a number of physiological effects such as sore throats and watering eyes - symptoms that soon earned the title of “lunar hay...
09 September 2020
The brain reorganises itself in space but is not destroyed, new study says
... experiments on astronauts who have spent months in space have shown that long-duration spaceflight causes widespread physiological changes to the human body. This was most apparent when NASA conducted a ground-breaking study on American...
17 December 2019
Earth’s doomsday scenario
...globe it was something of a niche congress headed up by Asgardia Science Minister Prof Floris Wuyts, a world-leading human physiology specialist from the University of Antwerp in Belgium. ROOM’s cross-section of Special Reports from ASIC are selected...
15 March 2021
Edinburgh Women in Space Conference 2021
...D Goodman. Lauren Church will also be hosting a workshop around the topic of an astronaut’s journey, with an emphasis on human physiology. The conference will also offer delegates a number of panels around the topics of taking action in diversity and...
20 September 2021
New partnership to deliver high-value EO agriculture data
... from across the electromagnetic spectrum. This technique allows the detection of very small changes in plant physiology, allowing measurement of proteins and identification of diseases to support worldwide agriculture and forestry management. The...
