Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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