A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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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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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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