One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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