Every general-chemistry student learns of Robert Boyle (1627–1691) as the person who discovered that the volume of a gas decreases with increasing pressure and vice versa—the famous Boyle's law. A leading scientist and intellectual of his day, he was a great proponent of the experimental method.
A biological cycle, or rhythm, that is approximately 24 hours long is called a circadian cycle
One of the many things plants do is produce oxygen through photosynthesis (which we use all the time)
The flu vaccine changes every year. The flu vaccine is based on a predicted strain that is anticipated to be the most infectious that year. Thats why people who sometimes get the vaccination still get the flu, they don't have the antibodies for the strain they were infected with. Strains for viral disease don't change very much and usually the vaccination for them cover them well.