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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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