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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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