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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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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