Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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