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Brooke Greenberg looks like a toddler, but she is actually sixteen years old. She is only 30 inches high. Now scientists are studying her genome to figure out whether she possesses a mutation that prevents her body from aging.

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Irradiating a beam of electrons from a 5 million volt particle accelerator into a block of acrylic causes the electrical “treeing” you see above. This particular hunk costs $175.

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