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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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