Microgravity is known to alter the muscles, bones, the immune system and cognition, but little is known about its specific impact on the brain. To discover how brain cells respond to microgravity ...

To overcome the impracticality of waiting decades for brain organoids to sufficiently mature, Muotri sends them on NASA space missions to experience microgravity. When they return to earth, the cells ...

According to a new study, 70% of astronauts who have spent between six and 12 months aboard the International Space Station ...

An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.

VECTION, a CSA investigation, found that microgravity had no immediate effect on the ability to perceive the height of an object, indicating that astronauts can safely perform tasks that rely on ...

Garrett Reisman: Being up there in microgravity is awesome ... Your vestibular system, your organs that provide information to the brain about your rotation and your acceleration, they're not ...

But in the near-zero gravity of space, leg muscles suddenly have little to do. To mimic this abrupt change, Donahue and his colleagues subjected mice to simulated microgravity by strapping tape around ...

The microgravity research laboratory at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) DLR Institute of Aerospace Medicine in Cologne is a space simulation facility that ...