Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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