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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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