Everyone knows that burning of fossil fuels is bad for the environment, in recent years electric cars have been becoming much more popular in a global green movement. So how eco-friendly are these vehicles. While the use of an electric vehicle has practically no carbon emissions, the electricity used to power it still isn’t perfect. …
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Could we deflect an asteroid
Millions of asteroids of all sizes make their way towards earth. Most of them are smaller than pebbles and disintegrate in the upper atmosphere of earth. Very occasionally a much larger asteroid will come past. For example the 10km wide rock that ended the reign of the dinosaurs. The questions becomes, if we detected a …
Gene doping: A possible future of sport
Sports have been a part of human culture for millennia, competitions are used to find out who is the best. There are many factors that contribute to how well a person can do in their chosen discipline. Top athletes will do everything they can to try reach peak performance, training for hours every day and …
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