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New research suggests there may be up to one trillion species of microbes on Earth, meaning that known species account for less than 1/1,000th of one per cent of the total.
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Daily flow volume, in litres, of the world’s shortest river, the Roe River. Given the volume of a human tear is 6.2 microlitres, the whole world couldn’t ‘cry me a river’, let alone Justin Timberlake’s ex.
2,325
The number of confirmed exoplanets spotted by NASA’s Kepler space telescope so far.
49,000
The age in years of a flake of basalt that was found in Australia. It is thought to be a fragment from the earliest axe with a handle.…