51 Cool Science Facts

The Ultimate Science Scroll: 51 Facts to Reset Your Brain

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• Space & The Universe

1. The smell of space is frequently described as a mixture of burnt gunpowder, ozone, hot metal, and toasted almond cookie/seared steak.
   It is because while space is a vacuum, particles cling to suits during spacewalks. When re-entering the airlock, these molecules interact with oxygen, creating a metallic, pungent aroma.
2. On Saturn and Jupiter, it literally rains diamonds due to extreme atmospheric pressureObviously when diomond is just carbon formed under high pressure and high temperature. Just imagine how rich you would have been if you were on one of those giants.( but mind the fact that you cannot even land these because it is an icy gas giant.
   
3. A day on Venus is longer than its year. It takes longer to rotate once on its own axis than to orbit the Sun.
4. If you put the planet saturn in a tub of water it would float , because of its very low mass density.
5. The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known place in the universe, with a temperature of -272°C.(And that is almost close to absolute zero)
6. 
   One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 6 billion tons—roughly the weight of a mountain( just try imagining the scale of the massive weight)
7. Here is another easy way to make you rich but this too is almost out of reach ,There is enough gold on the asteroid "16 Psyche" to make every person on Earth a billionaire.
8. In the vacuum of space, two pieces of the same metal will permanently fuse together if they touch in a process called the cold welding.
9. Since there is no wind or water on the Moon, the Apollo astronauts' footprints from the year 1969 will stay there for at least 100 million years to go.
10. On the Red Planet(Mars), sunsets appear blue to the human eye due to the way dust scatters light.
    

• Chemistry 

1. Water , the universal solvent can exist as a solid, liquid, and gas at the same time called the "Triple Point".
2. If you uncoiled all the DNA in your body, it would reach Pluto and back, twice.
3. That "rain smell" is actually because of a soil bacteria called Actinomycetes releasing a chemical called Geosmin.
4. Liquid oxygen is actually a beautiful pale blue.
5. 
   Bananas contain Potassium-40, making them slightly radioactive (but totally safe to eat)
   
6. Aerogel is a solid material that is 99.8% air and looks like "frozen smoke, and is often cited as the lighest solid.
7. Glass is a Liquid? Technically, glass is an amorphous solid(non-crystalline materials), but it behaves like a "frozen" liquid over long periods.
8. When cooled to near absolute zero, helium becomes a "superfluid" and can crawl up the walls of containers.
9. Bromine is the only liquid non metal to exist at room temperature.
10. Ever smelled books , and wondered about the nostalgic smell, It is called Biblichor.

• Human Body

1. There is enough iron in the haemoglobin of your blood to forge a metal nail about 3 inches long.
   
2. Over a typical lifetime, an average human produces roughly 25,000 quarts of saliva. That is enough to fill two entire swimming pools. 
3. About 99% of your body is made up of atoms that were forged inside stars that exploded billions of years ago. You are, quite literally, made of stardust.
4. Your stomach acid (hydrochloric acid) is so potent that it can dissolve stainless steel. To prevent your stomach from digesting itself, your body creates a new mucus lining every three to four days.
5. You are actually about 1 cm taller in the morning than you are in the evening. Throughout the day, gravity compresses the cartilage in your spine and knees; while you sleep, that cartilage decompresses and "recharges.
6. Just like your fingerprints, your tongue has a unique "tongue print." The pattern of your taste buds and the shape of the tongue are entirely unique to you.
7. Human bone is stronger than steel. A piece of bone the size of a matchbox can support the weight of 9 tons—which is roughly the weight of four large SUVs
8. Every single day, your heart pumps about 2,000 gallons (7,570 liters) of blood through your body. Over a lifetime, that’s enough energy to drive a truck to the moon and back
9. If you took all the blood vessels—arteries, veins, and capillaries—out of an average adult and laid them end-to-end, they would stretch for about 60,000 miles.
10. When you sneeze, air and particles travel out of your nose at speeds of up to 100 mph (160 km/h). This is a violent, coordinated reflex designed to clear your upper respiratory tract of irritants.

• Earth & Nature

1. Trees "talk" to each other through an underground fungal network nicknamed the "Wood Wide Web."
2. Some seagrass in the Mediterranean is estimated to be 200,000 years old.
3. Greenland sharks can live for over 400 years—some swimming today were alive during the Taj Mahal’s construction.
4. There is an ocean’s worth of water trapped inside a mineral called Ringwoodite 400 miles underground.
5. A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the Sun.
6. For every human on Earth, there are roughly 2.5 million ants
7. An average fluffy cumulus cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds (roughly 100 elephants)
8. Lobsters don't die of "old age"; they produce an enzyme that repairs their DNA indefinitely.
9. Your brain has a storage capacity of roughly 2.5 petabytes—enough to hold 3 million hours of TV.
10. Every person with blue eyes shares a single common ancestor who lived 6,000–10,000 years ago

• Physics And Technology

1. Scientists have built a motor with just a single atom.
2. Because of relativity, GPS satellite clocks run 38 microseconds faster than clocks on Earth.
3. Atoms can technically "teleport" through solid barriers; it’s how your smartphone’s flash memory works.
   
   
   
4. The light hitting your eye right now took 8 minutes to travel from the Sun, but 30,000 years to get from the Sun's core to its surface.
5. The First Computer Bug: It was a literal moth found stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
6. Wi-Fi technology was actually a byproduct of an experiment meant to detect mini black holes.
7. "Sonic fire extinguishers" use bass frequencies to separate fuel from oxygen, putting out fires with sound.

• Some other mind boggling facts.....include.

1. The Most Abundant State of Matter: It isn't solid, liquid, or gas—it's Plasma.
   
   
   
2. If you could fold a piece of paper 42 times, it would be thick enough to reach the Moon( doubtful then try it with a single piece of paper).
3. If you removed all the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on Earth, the entire population would fit inside an apple.
4. The average human body contains about 0.2 milligrams of gold, mostly in our blood.

There you go, I hope those 51 facts , left you wondering about our world.

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