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The most accurate atomic clocks in operation now lose less than one second every 30…
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The Mars rovers carry no clocks set to Earth time, so the engineers driving them…
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Octopuses have nine brains, three hearts, and blue copper-based blood, with roughly…
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In 2007 the European Space Agency exposed dried tardigrades to the open vacuum of…
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Astronauts on the ISS lose about 1-2% of their bone density per month in…
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The Antikythera mechanism was recovered from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901 with at…
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About 60 percent of the human body's mass is water, but a much more interesting…
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The Mariana Trench, the deepest known point on Earth's surface, sits about 36,000…
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Sunsets are red for the same reason the sky is blue, and the reason has nothing to…
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The Carrington Event of 1859 was a solar storm so intense that telegraph operators…
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The human brain uses roughly 20 percent of the body's total energy despite making…
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The human eye has a small blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina…
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Most of what we call "memory" isn't a recording of what happened
Human Factors
The single oldest non-clonal living thing on Earth is a bristlecone pine called…
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