0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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