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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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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