Top 10 Scientific Discoveries

10. The Drinking Cat

A cat can drink milk without getting its chin and whiskers wet.

The practical applications for this? None at all. Does that matter? Not a bit.

9. A New Element — Maybe - ununseptium

Lead, iron and uranium are nothing compared to ununseptium, the temporary name for element 117, an extremely heavy combination of berkelium and calcium isotopes created in a particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia. The new element existed for only the tiniest fraction of a second before vanishing again.

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