A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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