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Biology

Dust blown off the Sahara drifts across the Atlantic and fertilizes the Amazon rainforest

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A bolt of lightning is roughly five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

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Astronomy

Mount Everest grows a few millimeters taller each year as two plates keep colliding

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Science

Earth’s inner core runs about as hot as the surface of the Sun, near 5,400 degrees Celsius

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Saturn now has at least 146 known moons, more than any other planet

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Biology

An octopus learned to use a mirror to find food hidden behind it, a skill never seen outside vertebrates

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

Italian teenagers discovered a Roman villa buried beneath their own school

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Archeology

Pots of honey buried in ancient Egyptian tombs were still edible thousands of years later

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Astronomy

There may be more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way alone

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Biology

The wood frog can freeze nearly solid all winter and thaw back to life in spring

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Saturn is so light it would float if you could find an ocean big enough

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Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

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Biology

A six-week Antarctic expedition hauled back the sea squirt whose microbe attacks melanoma

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

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

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Biology

Your body builds roughly 330 billion new cells every single day

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Your stomach grows a fresh inner lining every few days so its own acid cannot digest it

By BeckhamLangford

Health

Patients who took glucosamine slipped toward Alzheimer’s faster than those who never touched the supplement

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Astronomy

Neutron stars are so dense that a sugar-cube of their matter would weigh billions of tons

By BeckhamLangford

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