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The Moon is so far from Earth that, using its average distance, you could line up every other planet in the solar system between us and still have about 4,400 kilometres left over.
Antarctica's Blood Falls runs red because iron-rich brine reddens on contact with the air
Off the coast of Japan lie perfectly geometric circles two metres wide pressed into the seabed, and divers who filmed them in 2011 learned they were courtship sculptures built grain by grain over a week by a pufferfish barely the size of a human hand.
In 1999, the Post Office began rolling out Fujitsu's Horizon accounting system across thousands of branches, and within years more than 700 subpostmasters were prosecuted over shortfalls generated by a screen before a High Court judge found the software itself could create phantom losses
A volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits closer to outer space than Mount Everest does, not because it is taller, but because the Earth bulges at the equator and Everest, further from that bulge, is actually deeper inside the planet.
In 2021, a team at Nottingham Trent University led by Nadja Heym surveyed almost 1,000 people and found that the dangerous personalities don't lack empathy — they just use the cognitive half without the affective one
At least two trillion galaxies fill the observable universe — ten times the old estimate — and most are too faint for any telescope today to see, a 2016 study found
In 1927 a Brisbane physics professor melted a lump of tar and sealed it in a funnel, and almost a century later that tar, stiff enough to shatter under a hammer, has dripped only nine times
When a seven-year-old reaches for red paint to show anger, the color wheel is not proving a hidden neural pathway, but turning the expanding language of emotion into something the child can see
SpaceX Dragon set to depart the space station with bioprinted tissue and cancer-treatment samples, bound for a California splashdown
