Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
71
Iron weighs more after it rusts.
16
Your brain is 80% water.
525
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
66
Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
0
4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
27
0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
310
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16