The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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