If humanity collectively wants to live among the stars someday, we’ll have to figure out what we can take with us and whether it can survive the trip. That’s why researchers run weird experiments on living things, from plants to animals.…
Expose an animal to extreme physical stress, and the expectation is simple: It will break down. But when UC Riverside scientists subjected fruit flies to forces many times stronger than Earth's gravity—a condition called hypergravity—the insects did…
