Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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