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In this image, you can see the fissures on Enceladus' southern region from which its jets of water vapor emerge.

Enceladus

In this image, you can see the fissures on Enceladus’ southern region from which its jets of water vapor emerge.

310 miles: the diameter of Saturn’s moon Enceladus, whose large underground ocean is now a top candidate for extraterrestrial life

10 million microbes per square centimeter: the population density of human skin (see what’s living with you here)

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Sam Kaplan

$9: the price per pound of Jelly Belly’s new beer-flavored jelly beans

140 different styles of beer: are classified by the Brewers Association (read about how the bubbly brew took over the world here)

15 minutes: the time it takes to turn empty beer cans into sun-tracking cameras

Beer Can Camera

Beer Can Camera

Here’s another way to reuse empty beer cans. As photographer Justin Quinnell explains, it’s the perfect material for creating a pinhole camera. Honorable mentions go to Quinnell’s other photography projects, which include eye-shaped camera obscuras and images taken from inside the photographer’s mouth.

1,640 feet: the range of Audi’s new laser headlights, which use blue laser modules in place of standard high beams

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Audi Sport Quattro

7.2 feet: the record-setting distance American physicists managed to send a super-high-energy laser beam

9 years: the time this scientist spent developing a fish-massage system for cruelty-free caviar

The beluga or European sturgeon is the source of beluga caviar, and is critically endangered.

Beluga sturgeon

The beluga or European sturgeon is the source of beluga caviar, and is critically endangered.

About 3,600 minke whales: have been caught in Japan’s dubiously scientific whaling program since 2005

About 30 days: the time an airplane’s flight data recorder sends out a detectable sonic ping (read why we haven’t built a better black box here)

9.4 percent: the factor by which astronauts’ hearts become more spherical in microgravity

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That’s Not The Shape Of My Heart