Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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