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ELEMENT OF THE MONTH

There are two reasons I've chosen Oxygen as this month's element.The first is this year's Nobel Prize has been awarded to William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza from the US and British scientists Peter Ratcliffe for their discovery on finding out how cells adapt a fluctuating oxygen levels which could help find new ways to fight diseases like cancer and anaemia.

And the second is the discovery that a spike in the oxygen level in the Martian atmosphere has been measured, why has this happened? Well they don't know yet, but it seems to be associated with the ebb flow of atmospheric methane on mars. (There are plenty of mysteries out there.)

And on a fun note... Mars is associated with with iron from Greek mythology, and Mars is red because of the iron oxide on its surface! How about that for coincidence? Or did our ancestors associate the red blood of a battle field and rusty swords with the red glow of Mars? I wonder?!