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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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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