A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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