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Editor's choice: International Space Station science
Is colonisation of space feasible? The International Space Station (ISS) is the collaborative hub of research which aims to answer this question. Here, Editors from two open-access Nature Research journals, npj Microgravityand Scientific Reports, have brought together more than 30 free-to-access papers describing data generated aboard the ISS. This Collection spans materials science, genetics, plant science, biology of fish and rodents, and human physiology.