A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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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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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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