MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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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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