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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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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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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