During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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