Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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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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