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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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