Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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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