Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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