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 inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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