Amazing Scientific Facts.

1)There is a blue pigment in octopus blood that allows it to live in freezing waters.

2)There are approximately 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in the human body.

3)New evidence suggests that Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere 4 billion years ago.

4)A new background in sensors could lead to an artificial skin that can sense touch, heat and humidity in the same way real skin does. If attached to prosthetics, this would allow amputees to detect changes in their environments.

5)Researchers are currently developing a technique to strip away cells of a heart down to its support structure, to be used as a scaffold for stem cells. This will be used to create donor hearts that eliminate the chance of rejection.

6)A Galapagos tortoise that died in 2006 at Steve Irwin's zoo was originally owned as a pet by Charles Darwin in 1835.

7)Air pollution is responsible for an estimated 2 million deaths worldwide each year.

8)In case of emergency, a crayon will burn for 30 minutes.

9)About 50% of human DNA is identical to a banana's sequence.

10)Researchers have developed the first telescopic contact lens - a lens that's capable of zooming your vision almost 3x.