Radiation Experiments Show Rodent Brain Damage, Study Shows

HOUSTON—Radiation exposures that human explorers are likely to encounter from galactic cosmic radiation on deep space missions to the Martian environs appear responsible for long-term brain damage in rodents that served as human analogue subjects in ground-based experiments. The experiments measured...

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