About 50 different shark species glow in the dark. That’s about 10% of all known sharks.
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An average swimming pool loses 1,000 gallons (3,785 L) a month to evaporation and other causes.
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A bottle of champagne contains 90 pounds of pressure per square inch, which is almost 3 times the pressure found in car tires.
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NASA’s New Horizons Principal Investigator smacks Political Correctness.
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Around 10:15 AM ET, signal-acquisition from the New Horizon’s spacecraft is expected to begin followed by the first download of science data from the flyby of Ultima Thule, some 9 hours prior. It takes a little over 6 hours for the signal to arrive at NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN).
The link includes details of where to watch and the timeline of press events for this historic mission.
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A 2011 poll of nearly 1,000 biomedical scientists conducted by the science journal Nature found that more than 90% agreed that the use of animals in research is essential.
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Elementary school students in Virginia built a satellite that was later deployed into space by NASA in 2016.
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Human fingers can feel objects as small as 13 nanometers. If your finger was the size of the Earth, you would feel the difference between houses and cars.
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