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Biology

Your body builds about 330 billion new cells every single day

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A full day on Jupiter lasts under 10 hours

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Light from the Sun’s core can take 100,000 years to reach the surface

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

An average cumulus cloud can weigh more than a million pounds

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Elephants can talk over miles using rumbles too low for human ears

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Human bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so the current cannot drift them apart

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Neptune and Uranus may rain solid diamonds deep inside their crushing atmospheres

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Your brain is 2% of your weight but burns a fifth of your energy

By BeckhamLangford

Health

The kidney drug finerenone hit its targets in three major trials at once, published the same day in The Lancet, the New England Journal and JAMA

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

An octopus has blue blood, carrying oxygen with copper instead of iron

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Most vivid dreaming happens during the rapid-eye-movement stage of sleep

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The coldest known place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Mindanao’s death toll climbed past 35 as rescuers clawed through collapsed buildings and more than 1,100 aftershocks rattled survivors two days after the magnitude 7.8 quake

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Lightning superheats the air to about five times the Sun’s surface temperature

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Sound travels about four times faster in water than in air

By BeckhamLangford

Science

At least three aftershocks above magnitude 6.0 have struck Mindanao since Monday, keeping survivors too afraid to step back inside damaged homes

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Astronauts also harvested alfalfa on the station this week, testing crops that could one day feed crews on long deep-space trips

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A flock of flamingos is called a flamboyance, a group of crows a murder

By BeckhamLangford

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