If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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