Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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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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