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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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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