Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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