MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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