Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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