MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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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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