Top 5 Science Facts that Will Blow Your Mind

  Prosthetics, engineering, and other areas of science have given us plenty of amazing facts that will blow your mind. You’ll never look at ...

 

Prosthetics, engineering, and other areas of science have given us plenty of amazing facts that will blow your mind. You’ll never look at the world the same way again! Here are some of our favorites...

Science Facts(About animals)

For example, did you know bats can smell their prey? They’re one of a few mammals with that ability, along with dogs and cats. So if you have a colony of bats in your attic, take note: they’re probably not just looking for a cozy spot to sleep. Instead, they’re on the hunt for food. Bats will also echolocate—or use sonar—to hunt insects and bugs in midair. If a bat flaps its wings at 200 times per second, it gives off an ultrasonic frequency that resonates across long distances. The intensity of those frequencies bounce back from objects (insects or other animals) in front of them, which helps them navigate through air currents or thick foliage. Their echoes are so intense—usually well over 100 decibels—that people are able to hear them from outside! That is why you hear high-pitched sounds coming from your house every night as well; these sounds are produced by bats as they search for food or communicate with each other during courtship or mating rituals.

Science Facts That Will Blow Your Mind

The Universe is expanding. Yes, it sounds strange, but scientists have observed galaxies moving away from each other at speeds proportional to their distance apart—and extrapolated back to realize everything was once a part of one massive singularity (literally called The Big Bang). In fact, according to some calculations, if you traveled at 186,000 miles per second (the speed of light), it would take over 4.3 billion years to reach our edge of The Milky Way Galaxy. 

It’s an inconceivable number and perhaps one of most mind-blowing science facts I can imagine. Sure, we’ve only been to space twice in human history and haven’t seen beyond our own galaxy, but just think about all those stars. Think about all those planets orbiting around them (one study estimated there are 8.8 million Earth-like planets in our galaxy alone). And then think about all those galaxies... If your brain just exploded into a puddle of knowledge juices then congrats!

Science Facts That May Make You Wonder Why You Need To Go To School At All

Did you know? A blue whale's heart is so big, a human can swim through its arteries. The first computer program was written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, and was to calculate Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage's analytical engine. DNA strands have 4 nucleotides: Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G) and Thymine (T). There are almost 8 miles of DNA in each of our cells.

Science Facts About Evolution

While it’s true that many of our basic senses have evolved to become more powerful over time (your sense of smell is better than a dog’s), some human innovations are actually older than you might think. For example, scientists now believe that color vision dates back more than 500 million years to one-celled organisms like green algae. And if your eyes still aren’t open wide enough, consider these facts about evolution. Majority of Life on Earth Lives in Ocean: If you take everything on land – all plants and animals including humans – and compare it with everything in water—including plankton, whales and sharks—the number in water far exceeds those on land. This isn’t just because oceans cover 70 percent of Earth; most life forms inhabit ocean regions. But when we talk about life on Earth, we mostly mean creatures that live only under water or live at least part of their lives there - even if they migrate onto land occasionally or burrow into soil as part of their life cycle.

Science Facts About The Earth, Sun, And Moon

The Earth, Sun, and Moon are in a very close, but not exactly equidistant orbit. They follow an elliptical path as they travel around a common center of gravity (barycenter). One side of that ellipse is about 93 million miles from the sun, while on other side it's more than 152 million miles away. If you were standing on either extreme side of its orbit, you'd see significantly different constellations! The force of gravity is actually stronger near Earth’s surface than it is between Earth and any other body in our solar system.