1966: year John Steinbeck wrote a letter to Popular Science arguing for the creation of a NASA for the oceans
65: number of bacteria species the rover Curiosity took on a trip to Mars
16,500 kilometers: diameter of Jupiter’s no-longer-so-Great Red Spot
29 percent: portion of the American public who deemed animal testing “morally wrong” in 2001; by 2013, it was 41 percent
The scientific community has always had an uneasy relationship with cats and dogs.
$534: cost to grow a kilo of hamburger meat from stem cells
The First Lab-Grown Burger
110 degrees F: temperature at which the flesh-eating Clostridium perfringens culture thrives in bread starter
Infectious Confection
1,460 cups a year: coffee intake of the average Swede, about twice as much as the average American (more fun coffee facts here)
4 months: time, over evenings and weekends, it took actor Nick Offerman to build an 18-foot wooden canoe
Small Boat, Big Job
13 pounds: weight of the robo-boats, disguised as crocodiles, researchers used to study hippo poo
Hippos and croc-boat
360 degrees: horizontal field of a new consumer video camera that lets you record a whole scene without moving
360Fly
335 feet: height of a new roller coaster that sends you on a 60mph, face-first fall
