A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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