Saturday, 9 April 2011

Deep-space travel bad for astronauts' tickers, say boffins

Mice zapped with atom-smasher beam in risky* experiments

Deep-space travel could be bad for the heart, report boffins. This has been established by blasting mice with an ion beam from a powerful atom-smasher, causing the luckless murines to develop artery damage of the sort that might result from exposure to powerful cosmic space radiation.?

Source: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/08/deep_space_ticker_risk/

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