The temperature in Antarctica plummets as low as -35 degrees celsius.

The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

Microbial life can survive on the cooling rods of a nuclear reactor.

The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurence every 9,300 years.

The air at the summit of Mount Everest, 29,029 feet is only a third as thick as the air at sea level.

Quasars emit more energy than 100 giant galaxies.

Every second around 100 lightning bolts strike the Earth.

When a flea jumps, the rate of acceleration is 20 times that of the space shuttle during launch.