Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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