Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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