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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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