Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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