Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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