Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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