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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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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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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