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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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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