Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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