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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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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