Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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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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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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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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