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With all this Brexit nonsense it really gets you thinking, what does it mean to be British? Well… A lot actually because according to research by AncestryDNA, the genetic make up of the average Brit is just 36.94 percent Anglo-Saxon, with the remainder being made up largely of Celtic, Scandinavian, Western European, Iberian, and Southern…
It seems that researchers might have found a way to produce breathable oxygen on Mars. They’ve developed a method to extract oxygen from carbon dioxide which is inspired by comets, and believe it could be used for future interplanetary missions as well as a way to reduce greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. Chemical reactions require…
Whether you’re left handed or right handed, you’ve probably wondered why you’re one or the other. Well, science has finally explained why, and why being left handed is much less common. You’ve probably thought, “is it just something we learn to have a preference for over time, or is it something to do with our…
By this point it’s well known that vaccines do more good than harm. But there is still a small (but growing) group of people that believe vaccines cause debilitating illnesses, disabilities and more. Vaccines work by creating “memory cells” that remember how best to fight a certain illness. For example, in a lab they will…
The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophic nuclear accident that occurred on 25–26 April 1986 in the No. 4 nuclear reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the now abandoned town of Pripyat, in northern Soviet Ukraine. The disaster began during a systems test on 26 April 1986 at reactor 4 of the V. I….
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