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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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