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Animals

Tardigrades can survive the vacuum of space 

These half-millimetre "water bears" dry into a tun state and shrug off radiation, boiling heat and near absolute zero — and have been revived after a space trip.

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Human Body

Your brain runs on about 20 watts

Some 86 billion neurons fire constantly, yet the whole brain uses roughly the power of a dim light bulb — while consuming a fifth of your energy.

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Space

The first photo of a black hole used an Earth-sized telescope

In 2019 eight radio observatories across the planet were linked into one virtual dish the width of Earth. It imaged M87*, a black hole 55 million light years away.

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