Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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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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