Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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