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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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    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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    German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Sequencing DNA from Cigarette Butt in Street and 3D Printing Face from It
    It's possible to sequence DNA on gum and cigarette butts found in the street and 3D print a very accurate face from it.
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    German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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    The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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