Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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