In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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