Monday, 21 May 2018

Deep space radiation treatment reboots brain's immune system

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NASA and private company SpaceX plan to send humans to Mars within the next 15 years -- but need to figure out how to protect astronauts from the dangerous cosmic radiation of deep space. Now neuroscientists have identified a potential treatment for the brain damage caused by cosmic rays -- a drug that prevents memory impairment in mice exposed to simulated space radiation.
via Science Daily
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Alien Asteroids Are Here. Get Used to Them.

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An asteroid that cohabits an orbit with Jupiter came from outside the solar system.
via New York Times

Hidden secrets

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Space Science Image of the Week: Herschel reveals massive stars hidden in a dark bubble, triggering the birth of a new stellar generation
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2018/05/Hidden_secrets_of_a_massive_star-formation_region