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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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