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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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