ISS astronauts suffer decades worth of bone density loss in few months, new study finds - Republic World

ISS astronauts, who spend a few months in outer space, suffer decades' worth of bone loss and don't recover even after a year on Earth, a new study has found.

Astronauts exposed to micro-gravity for months at a stretch encounter severe loss of bone density and do not recover even a year after their space mission, new research has warned. Published in Scien… [+2297 chars]

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