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 at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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