Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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 at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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