One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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