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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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