MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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