A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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