One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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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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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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