At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
15
Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
21
Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
10
Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
173
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
57
The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
18
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16