Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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