Scientists are working on technology to create roads that can charge electric cars as they drive on it

Pure water does not conduct electricity - Impurities found in water conduct electricity (such as salt)

Corpses don t decompose as fast as they used to because of all of the chemicals and additives we eat now

The earth carrying us is constantly hutling through space at a speed of more than 660 000 miles per hou

The tails of comets generally point away from the Sun whether the comet is approaching the sun or receding

That sudden jerk you sometimes experience when you slip in a dream while half asleep is called a Hypnic Jerk

The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket

Boeing 747 s wing span is longer than the Wright brother s first flight The Wright brother s invented the airplane

Scientists have found that our Milky Way galaxy contains at least 100 billion planets many of which can support life

Those bumps on your tongue aren t actually taste buds They re fungi form papillae -- Mushroom-shaped nipples in Latin

Astronauts cannot burp in space because there isn t enough gravity to separate the gasses from liquids in the stomach

The interior of Venus is composed of a central iron core and a molten rocky mantle similar to the composition of Earth

Brain uses 20% of all the oxygen we breath 20% of the calories of food we eat and about 15% of the body s blood supply

A cosmic year is the amount of time it takes the Sun to revolve around the center of the Milky Way about 225 million years

It takes glass one million years to decompose which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times