Episode 29: The Inglorious Dangers of Space

This episode explores new research which has found that simulated microgravity, such as that encountered in spaceflight, disrupts the functioning of the epithelial barrier (the lining of the gut).

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Read this episode’s science poem here.

Read the scientific study that inspired it here.

Read the 'Astronaut of Waste’ by Joel Sloman here.

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Music by Rufus Beckett.

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