Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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