Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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