Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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