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NASA Took Mice Into Space, And It Did Something Scary to Their Bones


Floating about in microgravity might seem like a blissful reprieve for the human body's weight-bearing skeleton, but when astronauts spend months in space, their bone density takes a serious hit that they may never fully recover from.

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