Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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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 banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of 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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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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