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Biology

An octopus keeps about two-thirds of its neurons in its arms, not its brain

By BeckhamLangford

Health

Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Lightning superheats the air around it to roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

By BeckhamLangford

Science

About 90% of Earth’s active volcanoes lie hidden beneath the oceans

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

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

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

Archaeologists finished excavating a 1,200-year-old elite tomb in Panama packed with gold offerings, sealed since long before Europeans reached the Americas

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

A tardigrade can survive the vacuum of space by drying out and shutting down its body

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

An elephant can communicate over miles using deep rumbles too low for humans to hear

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

A year on Mercury lasts just 88 Earth days as it races around the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Science

Cool a metal close to absolute zero and its electrical resistance can vanish entirely

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Your brain’s decision-making cortex keeps wiring itself until your mid-twenties

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

The Sun delivers more energy to Earth in an hour than humanity uses in a whole year

By BeckhamLangford

Neuroscience

Your brain runs on roughly 20 watts of power, less than a household light bulb

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Venus is the hottest planet in the Solar System, hot enough to melt lead

By BeckhamLangford

Biology

The DNA from a single human cell would stretch about two meters if pulled into a line

By BeckhamLangford

Health

A next-generation CAR-T therapy wiped out glioblastoma, the deadliest adult brain cancer, in lab tests of tumors that almost always shrug off treatment

By BeckhamLangford

Animals

A mantis shrimp punches with the force of a bullet, boiling the water around it

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Saturn is light enough that it would float in a giant bathtub of water

By BeckhamLangford

Archeology

The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest structure built by humans for nearly 4,000 years

By BeckhamLangford

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