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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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