Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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