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 at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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 banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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