A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
43
Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
18
Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
0
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.
34
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
57
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
175
If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67