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