There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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