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DOES YOUR HAIR colour determine how flexible you are?
That’s what Tara Matthews (16) set out to discover with her project on whether redheads are likely to be more hyper-mobile than others.
The Seamount College student from Galway brought her project to the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, and as a redhead herself – and hypermobile to boot – she had a very personal interest in its results.
Here’s what she found when she tested and compared the flexibility of redheads to people of other hair colours:
(Video TheJournal.ie/YouTube)
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