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Life on Earth is used to gravity – so what happens to our cells and tissues in space?

  • Written by Andy Tay, Ph.D. Student in Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles
imageLook ma, no gravity!NASA , CC BY

There’s one force whose effects are so deeply entrenched in our everyday lives that we probably don’t think much about it at all: gravity. Gravity is the force that causes attraction between masses. It’s why when you drop a pen, it falls to the ground. But because gravitational force is...

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