Wednesday, December 31, 2014

46 Important Things Science Taught Us In 2014

It was a big year for robot penguins, snake penises, and space exploration. Sadly not all at the same time.



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1. Penguins huddle together with their outer layer of feathers just touching to keep warm.


2. Dogs prefer to poo while aligned with Earth's magnetic field.


3. Being sleep-deprived makes you more susceptible to forming false memories, in which you remember something that didn't actually happen.


4. There are 37.2 trillion cells in your body (human cells, that is – the microbiome is another story).


5. There's an Earth-sized planet 500 light-years away.



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