Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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