David Hockney Painting Fetches $90.3 Million—Breaking Living Artist Record
David Hockney's 'Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)' has sold for $90.3 million, setting a new record for the…
Your Body Contains Enough DNA to Stretch from Earth to Pluto 17 Times
Inside every one of your roughly 37 trillion cells lies about 2 meters of tightly coiled DNA. Stretched end to end, the total length is unfathomable: enough to span the solar system 17 times.
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