Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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