The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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