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Human bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

A teaspoon of soil holds more microbes than there are people on Earth

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so the current cannot drift them apart

Neptune and Uranus may rain solid diamonds deep inside their crushing atmospheres

Your brain is 2% of your weight but burns a fifth of your energy

The kidney drug finerenone hit its targets in three major trials at once, published the same day in The Lancet, the New England Journal and JAMA

An octopus has blue blood, carrying oxygen with copper instead of iron

Most vivid dreaming happens during the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula

Mindanao’s death toll climbed past 35 as rescuers clawed through collapsed buildings and more than 1,100 aftershocks rattled survivors two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake

Lightning superheats the air to about five times the Sun’s surface temperature

Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air

At least three aftershocks above magnitude 6.0 have struck Mindanao since Monday, keeping survivors too afraid to step back inside damaged homes

Astronauts also harvested alfalfa on the station this week, testing crops that could one day feed crews on long deep-space trips

A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance, a group of crows a murder

Honey never truly spoils, even after thousands of years sealed inside a tomb

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