The cancer risk for a human mission to Mars has effectively doubled following a UNLV study predicting a dramatic increase in the disease for astronauts traveling to the red planet or on long-term missions outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field.

The risk of cancer doubles for long-term missions outside our planet’s magnetic field. This is something astronauts on the way to the first human mission to Mars may want to consider.

The cancer risk for a human mission to Mars has effectively doubled following a UNLV study predicting a dramatic increase in the disease for astronauts traveling to the red planet or on long-term missions outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field.

Aspiring astronauts might want to think twice before going to Mars, as scientists estimate that the risk of cancer doubles for long-term missions outside Earth’s magnetic field.

Astronauts travelling to Mars or on long-term missions outside the protection of the Earth's magnetic field would face much higher cancer risk than conventional risk models suggest, a study says.

Astronauts might be even more at risk for developing cancer than previously thought, with the cells that are damaged by radiation in space turning against the body’s healthy ones.

The cancer risk for a human mission to Mars has effectively doubled following a UNLV study predicting a dramatic increase in the disease for astronauts traveling to the red planet or on long-term missions outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field.

Under a new proposal, all new one- and two-family homes built in Las Vegas would need automatic fire sprinkler systems.

Newly-constructed homes in the City of Las Vegas could soon be required to have fire sprinklers installed. It’s something the City of Henderson mandated in 2010 but was tabled in Las Vegas while the housing industry recovered from the recession.