In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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