Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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