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Astronomy

The observable universe stretches roughly 93 billion light-years across

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes and twenty seconds to reach us

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Earth’s atmosphere has no sharp edge; it simply fades into space

By BeckhamLangford

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The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was about minus 128 degrees in Antarctica

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The Ring of Fire produces about 90% of the world’s earthquakes

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Kilauea’s eruption now holds the record for the most lava-fountain episodes ever logged

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava in its summit crater, holding an orange alert for jets

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

GPS satellites must correct for Einstein’s relativity or your location would drift off by miles

By BeckhamLangford

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About 90% of the ocean floor has never been mapped or explored

By BeckhamLangford

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The Sahara was a green, lake-dotted grassland about 6,000 years ago

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

If you uncoiled the DNA in one cell, it would stretch about two meters

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Roughly 2.5 million ants are alive for every single person on Earth

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Honeybees tell the hive where flowers are by dancing a precise waggle

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Sharks have no bones at all; their skeletons are built entirely of cartilage

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

An octopus can taste whatever it touches through the suckers on its arms

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

The human brain runs on roughly 86 billion neurons

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Your body holds more bacterial cells than human ones

By BeckhamLangford

Health

A genomic test spared two-thirds of high-risk breast-cancer patients from chemotherapy in a major trial

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Researchers tracing real-time brain chemistry caught copper triggering the toxic protein tangles behind Alzheimer’s

By Cassian Holt

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