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    Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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    One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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    The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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    Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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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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