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 gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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