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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

Hawaii drifts a few centimeters closer to Japan each year

A single whale shark swam 1,200 kilometers from Madagascar to the Seychelles, the first time the world’s biggest fish has been tracked making the crossing

A shark can smell a single drop of blood in a pool of water

Divers long believed 43 iron helmets pulled from the sea off Spain were Roman, but new dating proves they actually sank in the 1400s

A single day on Venus lasts longer than a whole year there

Mount Everest rises a few millimeters every year as two plates collide

The James Webb telescope turned up a hidden population of giant black holes that slip past nearly every traditional way of spotting them

Your nose can recognize roughly a trillion distinct smells

A black hole 4 million times the Sun’s mass sits at the Milky Way’s heart

Earth’s inner core is nearly as hot as the surface of the Sun

Saturn’s rings run from sand-sized grains to house-sized chunks of nearly pure ice

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