Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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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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