According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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