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From meditation visibly changing your brainwaves to gold coming from colliding stars, Horizon learned a few things in 2016. Here are our top 10 favourite science facts from this year.
1. Life could exist on Mars today, bacteria tests show.
2. Russian speakers are more sensitive to differences in the colour blue.
3. Chemotherapy could work twice as well if given at the right time.
4. Meditation visibly changes your brainwaves.
5. Dragonflies from millions of years ago had 60 centimetre wingspans.
6. Hypersonic aeroplanes could go from Brussels to Tokyo in two hours.
7. Gold on earth may have come from colliding stars.
10. Marathon runners produce proteins that are linked to heart attacks.
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