One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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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 weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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