Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are plagued by persistent rashes, unusual allergies and a variety of ...

The International Space Station is too clean and making it “dirtier” could improve astronauts' health, claims new research. They often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other ...

The space station’s microbiome represents an artificial ... to a wide array of microorganisms plays a role in immune system health. People who grow up in relatively aseptic city apartments ...

suggesting that the presence of more microbes from nature could help improve human health in the space station. Astronauts often experience immune dysfunction, skin rashes, and other inflammatory ...

Writing in the journal Cell, the authors suggested that introducing more microbes from nature could improve human health on the space station. Previous research has similarly shown that gardening ...

suggesting that the presence of more microbes from nature could help improve human health in the space station. “Future built environments, including space stations, could benefit from ...