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 at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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 storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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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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