Body signals such as heartbeat and breathing accompany us constantly, often unnoticed as background noise of our perception.

This new piece of the body’s immune defense could open new pathways to improved antibiotics and other medicinal therapies.

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Helping a sick family member over months or years can be an enormous strain. It can also disrupt your identity. Psychologists ...

Microgravity affects various aspects of the human body. According to NASA, microgravity leads to changes in fluid distribution, muscle loading, and altered signalling pathways. Some basic changes ...

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(NewsNation) — Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, as well as two other NASA astronauts, have left the International Space Station after being stuck for nine months after a Boeing test flight. The return ...

However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity ... Microgravity also distorts the vestibular system, which is how you balance and sense which way is up. In space, there is no up ...

Spending months in microgravity is brutal on the body. Without the Earth’s gravitational pull, muscles shrink, bones weaken and bodily fluids shift. Astronauts lose muscle mass rapidly because ...