Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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