DNA was first discovered in 1869 by Swiss Friedrich Mieschler.

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

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866.

Humans have 46 chromosomes, peas have 14 and crayfish have 200.

If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

To escape the Earth's gravity a rocket need to travel at 7 miles a second.

The Ebola virus kills 4 out of every 5 humans it infects.