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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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