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

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

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

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

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

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

Your brain’s decision-making cortex keeps wiring itself until your mid-twenties

The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in an hour than humanity uses in a whole year

Your brain runs on roughly 20 watts of power, less than a household light bulb

Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, hot enough to melt lead

The DNA from a single human cell would stretch about two meters if pulled into a line

A next-generation CAR-T therapy wiped out glioblastoma, the deadliest adult brain cancer, in lab tests of tumors that almost always shrug off treatment

A mantis shrimp punches with the force of a bullet, boiling the water around it

Saturn is light enough that it would float in a giant bathtub of water

The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure built by humans for nearly 4,000 years

Scientists found a hidden pocket on a cancer protein that drugs were never able to grip, opening a path to a new class of precise tumor blockers

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