Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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