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Apollo astronauts’ footprints may stay on the Moon almost unchanged, since there is no wind to erase them

A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon

A single gram of healthy soil can hold billions of living microbes

A day on Venus lasts longer than a full year on Venus

The Mariana Trench is so deep that Mount Everest could sink into it and still leave more than a mile of water overhead

The 2,000-year-old Antikythera mechanism was an analog computer built to predict the planets

A hummingbird’s heart can beat more than 1,200 times a minute while it hovers

The acid in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve metal

There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth

An octopus has three hearts, and two of them stop beating whenever it swims

Microsoft says its Majorana 2 chip kept a quantum bit alive for nearly a minute — but outside physicists say it still does not work

A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance, and their pink comes entirely from food

The human body makes about 2 million new red blood cells every single second

USGS says Kilauea’s 49th lava-fountain episode could erupt between June 13 and 19, the next burst in Hawaii’s record-breaking eruption

Roman concrete has lasted 2,000 years because seawater makes it grow stronger

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

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