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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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