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Biology

Bacteria in and on your body roughly match the number of your own cells

June 7, 2026

Biology

Your sense of smell can distinguish well over a trillion different odors

June 7, 2026

Animals

A blue whale’s heart is roughly the size of a small car

June 7, 2026

Neuroscience

Your brain stays electrically active during sleep, sometimes more than when you are awake

June 7, 2026

Science

Earth’s Ring of Fire produces about 90% of the world’s earthquakes along a 40,000-kilometer arc of colliding plates

June 7, 2026

Biology

An octopus keeps about two-thirds of its neurons in its arms, not its brain

June 7, 2026

Health

Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day

June 7, 2026

Astronomy

Lightning superheats the air around it to roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun

June 7, 2026

Astronomy

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

June 7, 2026

Science

About 90% of Earth’s active volcanoes lie hidden beneath the oceans

June 7, 2026

Astronomy

The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

June 7, 2026

Archeology

Archaeologists finished excavating a 1,200-year-old elite tomb in Panama packed with gold offerings, sealed since long before Europeans reached the Americas

June 7, 2026

Biology

A tardigrade can survive the vacuum of space by drying out and shutting down its body

June 7, 2026

Animals

An elephant can communicate over miles using deep rumbles too low for humans to hear

June 7, 2026

Astronomy

A year on Mercury lasts just 88 Earth days as it races around the Sun

June 7, 2026

Science

Cool a metal close to absolute zero and its electrical resistance can vanish entirely

June 7, 2026

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