Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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