Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory conditions while traveling in space. A new study publishing February 27 in the Cell Press journal Cell suggests that ...

Turns out, being too clean can be a bad thing. Scientists suggest the International Space Station (ISS) is so sterile that it ...

But “diversity” means different things to different people, sociologist Janet Xu of Princeton University and colleagues report March 12 in Science Advances. That means devising ways to turn ...

Astronauts in isolated space habitats could benefit from the intentional fostering of diverse microbes from humanity's ...

Earth science is inextricably connected to astronomy, which is the study of outer space, since the behavior ... pure and completely predictable." The diversity of topics under the earth science ...

The study involved an extensive sampling of 803 surfaces on the ISS, which revealed that human skin is the primary source of microbes throughout the station.

They then analyzed the samples and compared them to buildings on Earth, including homes, hospitals and offices. This revealed that the space station lacks the microbial diversity that benefits ...

Focus: Tracking the evolution of fern diversity through space and time We are tracking the evolution of fern diversity through ... The Chinese fern diversity is studied in collaboration with Professor ...

Award-winning seismologist and prolific researcher departs Texas after 22 years, during which he carried out pioneering work ...