Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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