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Astronauts on International Space Station lose alarming amounts of hipbone strength

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts spending months in space lose significant bone strength, making them increasingly at risk for fractures later in life.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1




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Pelvic widening continues throughout a person's lifetime, study

By the age of 20, most people have reached skeletal maturity and do not grow any taller. Until recently it was assumed that skeletal enlargement elsewhere in the body also stopped by age 20.

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Study Debunks Millennia-old Claims of Systematic Infant Sacrifice in Ancient Carthage

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study led by University of Pittsburgh researchers could finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest citizens. An examination of ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Dietary calcium is better than supplements at protecting bone health

Women who get most of their daily calcium from food have healthier bones than women whose calcium comes mainly from supplemental tablets, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Surprisingly, ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 19, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

ESA experiments with spaceflight participant Ansari to ISS

Scheduled to lift off on 18 September 2006 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, along with Expedition 14 crew members, NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Iranian-American ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 12, 2006 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (13) | comments 0


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