If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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