Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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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 is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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