The Week In Numbers: New Dinosaur Discovered, The World’s Largest Virus, And More

2014: the year this aerodynamic, flying saucer-like research station is set to open in Antarctica

15 feet: the length of a new cow-like dinosaur discovered in Utah

Nasutoceratops

1 week: the time it would take Earth’s average global surface temperature to drop below 0 degrees Fahrenheit if the sun went out

Solar prominence

$1,350: the price of this bio-inspired tarantula robot, which will crawl out of a 3-D printer and into your heart

520 billion: the number of gold nanodots per square inch on the thinnest light absorbers ever built

Thinnest Light Absorbers

$495: the price of an “invisibility wetsuit” that hides you from sharks while you swim

Shark-Proof Suit

12 miles: the diameter of a new moon discovered orbiting Neptune

New Moon For Neptune

44 pounds: the weight of the giant life-hunting bullets astronomers want to fire into Jupiter’s moon Europa

$150: the price of a pair of 3-D printed custom shoes

Custom-fitted Shoes

$100: the bounty this Colorado town might pay you for shooting down a government drone

Deer Trail Mayor Franks Fields aims at a hypothetical drone

1.5 to 1.8 liters: the amount of liquid the average active person sweats in an hour (so… how much can a human body sweat before it runs out?)

$130: the price of a new portable head-up display from Garmin

Garmin portable head-up display

2,556: the number of genes carried by a newly discovered megavirus, the world’s largest known virus. By volume, it is 200 times bigger than the flu.

Hello, Pandoravirus