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Biology

Your body makes roughly 2 million new red blood cells every second

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Biology

Some Arctic fish survive freezing water by making natural antifreeze proteins in their blood

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Earth’s atmosphere is about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen by volume

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Astronomy

A teaspoon of neutron-star matter would weigh about 6 billion tons on Earth

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Neuroscience

The adult brain holds about 86 billion neurons, each linked to thousands of others

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USGS says Kilauea’s 49th lava-fountain episode could erupt between June 13 and 19, the next burst in Hawaii’s record-breaking eruption

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A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck the ocean floor northeast of Neiafu, Tonga, the strongest jolt USGS logged worldwide in the past day

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Astronomy

The Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are slowly drifting toward a future collision

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Astronomy

Light from the nearest star beyond the Sun takes more than four years to reach us

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Astronomy

Every star you can see with the naked eye sits inside our own Milky Way

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Astronomy

A comet’s tail always points away from the Sun, whichever way it travels

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Neuroscience

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

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Physicists trapped a never-before-seen phase of matter, freezing the fleeting instant when a metal’s atoms switch from one crystal pattern to another

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Animals

Scientists described a new, cryptic fantail bird hiding in the forests of Indonesia’s remote Babar Islands, a species no one had ever named

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Animals

Honeybees point their hive toward food by dancing in looping figure-eight patterns

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Biology

Bacteria in and on your body roughly match the number of your own cells

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Biology

Your sense of smell can distinguish well over a trillion different odors

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Animals

A blue whale’s heart is roughly the size of a small car

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Neuroscience

Your brain stays electrically active during sleep, sometimes more than when you are awake

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Earth’s Ring of Fire produces about 90% of the world’s earthquakes along a 40,000-kilometer arc of colliding plates

By BeckhamLangford

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