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Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

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

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Science

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

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Science

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

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Astronomy

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

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Neuroscience

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

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Animals

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

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Animals

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

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Astronomy

Earth has more trees than the Milky Way has stars

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Science

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

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Biology

Your body is built from roughly 37 trillion cells, and nearly every one carries the same DNA

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Astronomy

The observable universe stretches about 93 billion light-years across

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Astronomy

At highway speed driving straight up, you would reach space in under an hour

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Astronomy

Light from the Sun takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

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Astronomy

The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

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Animals

A single honeybee colony can visit 50 million flowers in one day

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Astronomy

Jupiter is so massive that every other planet could fit inside it

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Astronomy

A June 6 solar blast is set to slam into Earth’s magnetic field Monday, with a second, weaker storm following Tuesday

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

About a third of the buried Roman city of Pompeii is still underground today

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Biology

The human eye can spot a single candle flame from about 1.6 miles away

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