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When learning about the effects of spaceflight on human health, you typically will hear about the dangers of radiation, bone density loss and changes in eyesight. While these long-term risks are important, a less frequently ...
Oct 21, 2025
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Scientists studying ways of improving motion sickness have found that playing different types of music may help people recover more effectively. Using a specially calibrated driving simulator, they induced car sickness in ...
Sep 3, 2025
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Cars may be a modern phenomenon, but motion sickness is not. More than 2,000 years ago, the physician Hippocrates wrote "sailing on the sea proves that motion disorders the body." In fact, the word nausea derives from the ...
Jun 24, 2025
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A research group led by Takumi Kagawa and Masashi Kato at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has discovered that using "a unique sound stimulation technology"—a device that stimulates the inner ear with a specific ...
Apr 4, 2025
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Motion sickness is a very common condition that affects about one in three people, but the brain circuits involved are largely unknown.
Mar 25, 2025
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Picture this test: You stand with your eyes closed and arms stretched in front of you while a voice from a stationary loudspeaker located two meters away narrates a series of sentences. Then you're asked to walk on the spot ...
May 28, 2024
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This week has seen another barrage of unsettled weather sweep across the UK, with many flights delayed or cancelled. Some of those who were fortunate enough to take off found themselves arriving at destinations that weren't ...
Jan 25, 2024
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A team of neuroscientists at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona has found that the neurons in a mouse brain's vestibular nuclei control the signals that cause motion sickness. In their paper published in Proceedings of the ...
Travel sickness isn't just hearsay. Nearly a third of people experience motion sickness—and to this day we don't exactly know what causes it. The prevailing theory suggests it is triggered by a poor perception of movement.
Aug 17, 2023
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My first experience with motion sickness was as a college student, standing on the back of a marine research vessel looking at interesting things dredged from the seafloor off the California coast. It was a day trip, the ...
Apr 11, 2023
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