Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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