A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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