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Plastic and oil eating microbes apocalypse part 1 - How fast can they spread?
The inventors of penicillin carried the mold out of Nazi territory by smearing it on their clothes.
If you want a quick dispersal, then consider human air travelers as your medium.
The initial rel …
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Possible Long Term Effects of Frequent Teleportation
Aging differently
You are reassembled perfectly on the other end, but somehow your telomeres, which are believed to control aging, are affected. Teleportation causes your telomeres to unravel ever so …
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How could elves survive without any fat cell in their body?
Elves can only form brown fat which (from the article I cited) is "found in weird spots". So their necks and shoulders are a little thicker than you'd guess, but it's not a place you normally look for …
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What possible scientific reasons could there be for a vampire to only be killable via wooden...
I'm going to riff on Tim B's answer and say it's about the vampire's regenerative process, which creates highly localized, intense heat. Normally this isn't a problem, but you add intense heat to wood …