MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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