Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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