Science Facts
According to scientists, vampire bat saliva is the best known medicine for keeping blood from clotting.
Light travels 18 million times faster than rain.
The barbituate "pentobarbital" is also known as truth serum.
Summer on Uranus lasts 21 years.
0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
By weight, the sun is 70% hydrogen, 28% helium, 1.5% carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen, and 0.5% all other elements.
By recycling just one glass bottle, the amount of energy that is being saved is enough to light a 100 watt bulb for four hours.
The entire last name of the person for which Tourette Syndrome is named is Gilles de la Tourette. People dropped the "Gilles de la" and the disorder is known simply as "Tourette Syndrome."
Allan MacLeod Cormack, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology for the invention of computer-assisted tomography, never received a PhD or MD.
The number of synapses in the human brain is larger than the number of galaxies in the observable universe and the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
Women comprise 22% of the US scientific and engineering workforce.
Acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) was first synthesized by Felix Hoffmann in 1897.
The roundworm (Caenorhabditis elegans) has 302 cells in its nervous system.
The knee jerk reflex takes about 30 milliseconds.
The cerebellum is only 10% of the entire volume of the brain, but contains more than half of all of the neurons in the brain.
The term "homo sapiens" comes from the Latin words meaning "wise man."