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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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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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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