The average person spends about 28 hours a year waiting around for pots to boil during cooking, according to London researcher Chris Aram.
University of Texas astronomer William Cochran has discovered a Jupiter-sized planet in the same orbit that Star Trek lore says one would find Vulcan, Mr. Spock’s home world (orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani).
Depending on the context, the word “fecund” is an adjective meaning “capable of producing offspring or vegetation” or “intellectually productive.”
About two-thirds of Americans cannot name a Supreme Court justice, according to the Center for American Progress.
University of Florida scientists have grown a brain in a petri dish from 25,000 neural cells extracted from a rat embryo and taught it to pilot an F22 jet simulator.
This article appears in January 28 • 2005.