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Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A single bolt of lightning heats the air around it to about 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit, five times hotter than the surface of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Science

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

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Space is completely silent, because there is no air to carry sound

By BeckhamLangford

Science

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned waves up to 10 feet were possible along Philippine coasts after Monday’s powerful quake

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Some bristlecone pines are over 4,800 years old, older than the pyramids of Egypt

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The Sun holds about 99.8% of all the mass in the solar system

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

The blood vessels in your body would stretch about 60,000 miles if uncoiled

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

Male pufferfish carve perfect seven-foot circles into the seabed to attract a mate, redrawing them grain by grain

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

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

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Neutron stars spin so fast that some complete hundreds of full rotations every second

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

The Great Pyramid stayed the tallest structure built by humans for nearly 3,800 years

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Your nose can recognize and remember about a trillion distinct smells

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Alaska’s Great Sitkin volcano keeps oozing lava inside its summit crater, holding the mountain at an orange alert for passing jets

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

A child’s tooth and green stones in a Pyrenees cave just revealed one of the oldest high-altitude mining camps ever found, 5,500 years old

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

Tardigrades can survive being frozen, boiled, dried out, and even left exposed to space

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A shark can smell a single drop of blood diluted in a swimming pool of water

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Apollo astronauts’ footprints may stay on the Moon almost unchanged, since there is no wind to erase them

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A strong G3 geomagnetic storm is forecast to hit Earth Monday, pushing the northern lights as far south as Illinois and Oregon

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

A single gram of healthy soil can hold billions of living microbes

By BeckhamLangford

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