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Sighing is a spontaneous deep inhalation and exhalation. It serves to boost blood oxygen levels and fully reinflate the lung tissue. Sighing is not contagious in the same way as yawning, which...

Whether a reservoir ever fills up completely or not usually depends upon its function. Some reservoirs just hold water for hydroelectric power stations and their level is controlled according to...

If you put diesel in a petrol engine, it’d cause knocking, which would eventually cause serious damage. As for diesel engines, they use the fuel itself as a lubricant. Using petrol would...

The idea of an environmentally-friendly war might strike some as a bit odd. There's no doubt that the use of chemical weapons like the herbicide Agent Orange during the Vietnam War caused decades...

Freckles are formed when groups of melanocyte cells beneath the skin are triggered by sunlight to increase melanin production. A regulating protein on the cells (called MCR1) is responsible for...

The first list of fundamental elements was published by Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier in 1789. He listed 33 ‘elements’ that “are the substances we have not discovered means for...

These are volcanoes with a Volcanic Explosivity Index of 8 that throw out more than 1000km3 of material. By comparison, the 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens released 2.8km3. The...

That depends on what you mean by ‘life’, but it’s reasonable to say that the absolute minimum requirement is the existence of molecules made from relatively heavy elements like...