Twins no longer identical after one brother's year on International Space Station

When do identical twins stop being identical? When one of them blasts into space for a year.

Twins no longer identical after one brother's year on International Space Station

That’s according to the findings from the Nasa Twins Study which found that astronaut Scott Kelly’s genes had altered after he spent just under a year on the International Space Station (ISS).

Scott stayed on the ISS from March 2015 to March 2016 while his identical twin brother Mark, also an astronaut, remained on Earth.

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