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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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