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Cooled near absolute zero, many metals lose all electrical resistance

Your body’s blood vessels would stretch about 60,000 miles end to end

A cheap kidney pill millions already take just cut the risk of kidney failure and heart death by 23% in patients doctors thought it could never help

Nerve signals can travel through your body faster than 250 miles per hour

The largest living thing is an Oregon honey fungus spanning over three square miles

The Sun is 400 times wider than the Moon, yet looks the same size

The Spanish helmets, snagged in fishing nets near Benicarló, now rank as the largest medieval helmet hoard ever found in the western Mediterranean

Astronauts aboard the space station are 3D-printing human cartilage in orbit to test whether weightlessness can grow replacement tissue better than Earth can

Your stomach regrows its inner lining every few days so acid cannot digest it

USGS now expects Kilauea’s 49th lava-fountain episode to erupt between June 12 and 15, the next burst in Hawaii’s record-breaking eruption

The Atlantic widens about an inch a year as new seafloor forms

A strong geomagnetic storm can disrupt power grids and scramble GPS for hours

Your brain stays electrically active all night, sometimes more than when awake

Wombats are the only animals known to produce cube-shaped droppings

Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins by slowing their heart rate

Earth has more trees than the Milky Way has stars

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