Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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