MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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