There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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