4 – Day Long Surgery
The longest surgery to date performed in 1951. It was a 96-hour marathon to remove a 300-lb ovarian cyst from… more
Duck Hunt Game
Duck Hunt works by flashing the screen black when you shoot, except where there are ducks and a photodiode in… more
Water on Earth
The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years, 80% of the earth’s… more
Human Body with Water
Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed… more
Supernova Explosion Energy
A Supernova explosion produces more energy in its first ten seconds than the Sun during the whole of its 10-billion-year lifetime and… more
Cotton Candy Machine
Machine-spun cotton candy was invented in 1897 by dentist William Morrison and confectioner John C. Wharton, and first introduced to a wide… more
The Town Centralia, PA has been on fire since 1962.
Coal seam fires are nothing new, but Centralia’s is the United States’ worst and one of history’s most devastating. Before the… more
Neptune’s Moon Triton
Neptune’s tidal forces are causing Triton to move slowly closer to the planet. In around 250 million years it will… more
Unaffordable Medicine!
Spinraza, a drug for spinal muscular atrophy, has a list price of $750,000. Spinraza list price in the USA is US$125,000 per injection… more