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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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