3D Printers Can Now Build a Livable House in 24 Hours for Under $10,000
Companies like ICON now print full-sized concrete homes in under 24 hours of print time. The materials cost a fraction o…
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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