A quarter of the world's plants are threatened with extinction by the year 2010.

An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.

Each rubber molecule is made of 65,000 individual atoms.

The world's smallest winged insect, the Tanzanian parasitic wasp, is smaller than the eye of a housefly.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.

October 12th, 1999 was declared 'The Day of Six Billion' based on United Nations projections.

The thermometer was invented in 1607 by Galileo.

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