Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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