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Study shows space travel is harmful to the brain [View all]
As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation – which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars – could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-12/uorm-hwh122712.php
Maybe we'll have to use robots for most space exploration, after all.
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