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Why the sky is blue, explained properly

Written for UpdateSee: the essentials, without the noise. Sunlight contains every colour, and as it passes through the atmosphere the gas molecules scatter the shorter blue wavelengths far more than the longer red…

By Samuel Adeyemi

What a vaccine actually does in your body

A short, useful read for the UpdateSee community. A vaccine shows the immune system a harmless piece or copy of a germ so that it can prepare before the real thing arrives. The body produces antibodies and memory…

By Maya Thornton
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