Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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