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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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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