Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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