Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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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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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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