Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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