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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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