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CBS Colorado: Wildfire smoke returns to Colorado: “It’s happening more frequently”
“It is happening more frequently,” said Sheryl Magzamen, a professor in Colorado State University’s Department of Environmental and Radiological Health. “Climate change is driving these increases in fires in the west.”
The Conversation: Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology − a new set of studies offers the most comprehensive look at spaceflight health since NASA’s Twins Study
I am a radiation cancer biologist in Colorado State University’s Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences. I’ve spent the past few years continuing to build on that earlier research in a series of papers recently published across the portfolio of Nature journals.
Fox 35 Orlando: Women astronauts could be ‘more tolerant to spaceflight,’ research shows
Another SOMA researcher, Susan Bailey, with Colorado State University, said that although this new research shows women can bounce back a little faster, there is a caveat.