Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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