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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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