The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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