What are the most fascinating science facts?

 

• A human body has enough DNA to extend from our sun to Pluto and back.

• Your brain is more powerful, more complex and more clever than any computer ever built.
• Helium Works Against Gravity, Helium doesn’t get affected by gravity.
• Animals Use Earth’s Magnetic Field to Know their Location.
• Hot water freezes faster than cold water.
• Nothing in the universe can go faster than the speed of light.
• The speed of light traveling through a vacuum is exactly 299,792,458 meters per second (186,000 miles per second)
• The letter "J" is the only one not found on the periodic table.

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 Trees go to sleep too

Other plants open up and close from day to night, and trees do something similar. Scientists measured that trees shrink by 10cm at night and regain it's height after sunrise.

Time Crystals

Something that sounds like it came straight out of Rick and Morty is apparently real. Regular crystals are repeated patterns of atoms or molecules-in space. A time crystal has a pattern like a regular one, but it flips to another one, then flips again, forever.

Genghis Khan Had a Few Children

It's well known that the Asian ruler had a large harem and that he slept with thousands of women. He had so many children that today, 8% of Asian men are direct descendants of him. That's 16 million people!

The Earth Used To Be Purple

Yep. Chlorophyll, the stuff you'll find on plants, reflects green, resulting in green plants. Earlier in Earth's history though, microbes in plants used retinal instead, which reflects red and blue, causing a purple hue.

Toasting Using Lightning

Yeah, lightning. That thing that strikes in thunderstorms. If we could harness the energy from it, a single bolt of lightning could cook 100,000 pieces of toast.

Strongest Organism Ever?

What is the strongest living thing in existence? The Rock, Shaq, Thanos? Wrong. Gonorrhea bacteria is. They can pull 100,000 times their body weight, which is equal to 22 million pounds for humans. They do that by using a substance called pili to attach to other things.

We Are All Snakes

Okay not really, but the average human does shed 40lbs of skin in their lifetime.

Antimatter Is Dangerous And Expensive

Antimatter is (obviously) the opposite of regular matter. Instead of protons, neutrons, and electrons, there are antiprotons antineutrons and antielectrons (also known as positrons). When matter and antimatter come together, you get an explosion. If a 1kg piece of antimatter crashed into Earth, the energy released would be enough to melt 220,000,000,000 pounds of granite. Don't worry, we could never afford that much antimatter, since it cost $62.5 trillion to make a gram of it.

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 We could get 25th hour in a day in 140+ million years. this is due to the fact because earth is slowing down by 0.02 millisecond daily

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• China built a dam which affected the rotation of Earth!

Its reservoir has a stunning capacity of 39 trillion kilograms of water, which it lifts through a height of 175 meters. This affects the moment of inertia of our planet and slows down the rotation of Earth (hell yes).
This has led to increase of 0.06 microseconds (not noticeable, of course) in a day's duration! The Earth has become flatter (only slightly) at the poles and rounder in the middle.

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• We do not revolve around the sun

Well, Technically we do not revolve around the sun but around the center of mass of the solar system

The center of mass of our solar system very close to the Sun itself, but not exactly at the Sun's center.

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• Moon is the child of Earth

Moon was formed because of a collision, so moon inherited a large part from Earth

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• Mars appears RED because its covered in Iron Oxide

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• Jellyfish and lobsters are considered Biologically Immortal.They don’t age and will never die unless killed.

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• Everything we eat is processed sunshine

Carnivore eats herbivore which eat plants made from sun light

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• Atoms contain 99.99999999% empty space.

So technically, mobile (or computer) you’re looking at, the seat you’re sitting on are MOSTLY NOT THERE.

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• Sharks never get sick, they are immune to all known diseases.

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• On Uranus and Neptune, it rains diamonds

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• Venus is the only Planet that rotates clockwise

Venus is also the hottest planet

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• Space smells like combination of hot metal,fuel and barbecued meat.

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• Aliens might be looking at Dinosaurs

If Aliens on a planet 65 million light years away are looking at earth now, they will find Dinosaurs only because light from us will reach them in 65 million years

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• Once every 2737 years

Mercury, Venus and Saturn aligned with Pyramids of Giza on Dec 3, 2012

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What are the most fascinating science facts?

 

1. Ever heard the oxymoron burning ice? Well, it’s absolutely true. 33 Light years Away there is an Exoplanet that is completely covered in burning ice!

In the constellation Leo, Gliese 436 b is a planet that is about as massive as Neptune. The planet also happens to be covered in burning ice - though the ice isn’t anything like what we’re used to. The extreme pressure of the planet forces the water to stay in solid form, even though the temperature exceeds 570° F (300° C). The outer layer of the solid water is superheated and comes off as vapor. Water has over 10 solid states, not including common ice.

In its present position, the water would not have been able to condense down into a solid, indicating that it migrated toward its sun after it formed.

For more information- Gliese 436b, The Planet of Burning Ice

2. Spaghettification

If you somehow got too close to a black hole and were sucked in by its gravitational pull, it would pull harder on your feet than on your head. You would get stretched out — or spaghettified — by the intense pull. You would NOT survive the experience!

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 1. A teaspoonful of a neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons

2. A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle

3. There is enough DNA in the average person’s body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back — 17 times

4. It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth

5. In an entire lifetime, the average person walks the equivalent of five times around the world

6. Grasshoppers have ears in their bellies

7. Octopuses have three hearts, nine brains, and blue blood

8. The world’s smallest fidget spinner is 100 microns wide

9. The Earth spins at 1,000 mph but it travels through space at an incredible 67,000 mph

10. The human brain takes in 11 million bits of information every second but is aware of only 40

11. One in every 2000 babies is born with a tooth

12. Our ears keep on growing throughout our lives with almost unbelievable speed — a quarter of a millimeter per year!

13. The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old!

14. To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers

15. If you took out all the empty space in our atoms, the human race could fit in the volume of a sugar cube

Hopefully, you enjoyed reading… :)

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 

1. If you can fold the paper into half for 103 times, the thickness of the fold will be more than the breadth of the entire universe. Thickness of a paper to start with is 0.0039-inch. - (This is the power of exponentiation)
2. Largest Cell in Human body is the Female Egg; Smallest Cell in human body is Male Sperm(in terms of volume). (Man up sperm, man up :))
3. Simple act of Hand washing prevents chances of infections close to 48%. Hospitals hire industrial engineers in organizing the hand wash and sanitation equipments.
4. Healthcare system was well organized and laid out in Hammurabi’s code and payment for each procedure was well documented 4000 year before(not complete but yet comparable).
5. One discrete transistor costs around $8(inflation adjusted) in 1960 and today the latest "Haswell-MB" (quad-core, 22 nm)Core i7-4940MX has 1.4 Billion transistors in it and each of them costs a whooping 0.0000007824$. (Moore’s Law)
6. If there is single form of ideal coexistence(social order), it’s at doomsday vault, where seeds coexist with full life and hope. Here some of the most antagonistic countries occupy places very close to each other.
7. It may take 4000 years for a photon to escape the sun’s field.
8. There are more atoms in a Single spoon of water than the entire Atlantic ocean measured in spoons. (To be precise 7.84 times more atoms than the Atlantic in spoons)
9. Scientists are working on Post-quantum cryptography while production level quantum computers are even quite ambitions today.
10. Traveling Sales Man Problem- a problem of a given a set of cities and distance between each pair of them; find the shortest path over the entire set of paths - is still a hard problem to solve even for the most powerful computers even if you have as few as 100 cities to visit. (Bees solve its inherently for collecting honey from more than hundreds of flowers daily, checkmate you human)

What are the most fascinating science facts?

 1. Babies have around 100 more bones than adults

2. The Eiffel Tower can be 15 cm taller during the summer

3. 20% of Earth’s oxygen is produced by the Amazon rainforest

4. Some metals are so reactive that they explode on contact with water

5. A teaspoonful of neutron star would weigh 6 billion tons

6. Hawaii moves 7.5cm closer to Alaska every year

7. Chalk is made from trillions of microscopic plankton fossils

8. In 2.3 billion years it will be too hot for life to exist on Earth

9. Polar bears are nearly undetectable by infrared cameras

10. It takes 8 minutes, 19 seconds for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth

11. If you took out all the empty space in our atoms, the human race could fit in the volume of a sugar cube

12. Stomach acid is strong enough to dissolve razor blades

13. The Earth is a giant magnet

14. Venus is the only planet to spin clockwise

15. A flea can accelerate faster than the Space Shuttle

image source: Memory science: can you extend your short-term memory? | How It Works Magazine

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