If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
140
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
155
German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
68
Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
17
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16
Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
55