In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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