Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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