A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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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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