Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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