Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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