Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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