Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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