Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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