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The Surprising Effect Trees Really Have on Climate Change

Could Planting Trillions of Trees Really Help the Planet?

With space on this planet left for 1 trillion trees to be grown, this TED-ed video asks the questions: how could we go about planting this many trees, and will it actually help?

Science and Technology

Why Asteroid Mining is the New Trillion Dollar Business

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Asteroid Mining: Why it's the New Trillion Dollar Business

Why Asteroid Mining is the New Trillion Dollar Business science, space, economics, resources, asteroid mining, spaceflight, precious materials Get ready to learn how asteroid mining could potentially transform our world.

Science and Technology

Let's Take Journey to the End of Time...

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Do You Want to See How the Universe Ends?

Journey with us billions and trillions of years to the future on a quest to theorize what the end of everything will look like, and why.

Science and Technology

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Can Light Itself Be Captured On Camera? Yes It Can!

Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look "around" corners or see inside the body without X-rays.

Science and Technology

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Cell vs. Virus: The War Inside Our Bodies

All living creatures are made of trillions of cells. These cells are under constant threat of attack by bacteria and viruses, wishing to use the resources of our bodies to propagate.

Science and Technology

10 Incredible Facts About the Wonders of the Cosmos

Ever Wanted to Learn the Secrets of the Universe?

There’s a huge cloud of water, and when I say huge - I mean 140 trillion times (!) more water than all the water on earth. Not only that, this cloud of water actually surrounds a giant black hole that produces more energy than our sun, a thousand trillion times over. WOW. 3.

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Fascinating: How are CPU Chips Made?

The production of CPUs, GPUs, and smartphone microchips forms the backbone of a multi-trillion-dollar industry, with each factory costing tens of billions to build. This is a comprehensive look at both the fabrication process and the workings of a microchip plant.

Riddles & Quizzes

Quiz: The Clear Thinking Test!

The letter “m”. 10 10 3 1 30 11 5,900 miles (9,500 km) 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) 59 miles (95 km) 590 billion miles (94,951 km) 12 100 10 1,000 20 13 Jack isn't American. Jack isn't English. Jack and Rachel aren't English.

Science and Technology

Meet 7 People With Unique and Powerful Brains!

These abilities all come from our brain, whether we were born to it or created it through hard work, it is the uniqueness of our brain's trillions of connections that make us who we are.

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Quiz: The Clear Thinking Test

The letter “m”. 10 10 3 1 30 11 5,900 miles (9,500 km) 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km) 59 miles (95 km) 590 billion miles (94,951 km) 12 100 10 1,000 20 13 Jack isn't American. Jack isn't English. Jack and Rachel aren't English.

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How Augustus Caesar Became The Wealthiest Man to Ever Live

But what if we told you that there is one historical figure who was worth an astonishing 4.6 trillion dollars? Take a moment to let that sum sink in. The man was Augustus Caesar, the great-nephew of Julius Caesar. How did he come into power and become so overwhelmingly wealthy? Watch to find out.

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11 Things That Happened For the First Time in 2018

Apple becomes first company to reach value of $1 trillion Apple became the world’s first publicly-traded company to exceed the value of $1 trillion in 2018. Amazon made the cut a mere month later.

Science and Technology

New Black Hole Detected and It’s The Closest Ever to Earth

New Black Hole Detected and It’s Extremely Close to Earth

The black hole is about 1,000 light-years away, and each light year is 5.9 trillion miles away (or 9.5 trillion kilometers).

Design & Photography

Shocking: How Did These Crazy Photographs Ever Occur?

source The true size of an iceberg source A one-in-a-trillion snowflake source Trees covered in spider webs source An extraordinary overflow on the River Derwent, England source A September leaf source A fish taking a ride inside a jellyfish source When someone washed their car rather well source H/T

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Wealth Of Nations

To date the US government has borrowed $14 trillion! The UK , likewise, while the country/people are rich, the government isn't. The UK government’s debt stands at $9 trillion now. World’s Richest Governments after 2008-2009 financial crisis: 1. China National reserves: $2,454,300,000,000 2.

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BODY TRIVIA: How Well Do You Know the Human Anatomy?

It is made of millions and trillions of working parts, and is unimaginably complex. However, there are many things we should know about our body that we don't. What about you? Do you know your own body?

Science and Technology

12 Bizarre Scientific Facts You Never Learned at School

But experts do estimate that our bodies are made up of around 39 trillion bacteria - 9 trillion more than human cells. Previously , scientists have thought that the bacteria to human cell ratio is even higher - around 10 to 1 - but they now believe that it’s more of an even split.

Computers & Internet

16 Things You Didn't Know Google Can Do For You

Google is the most frequently used search engine in the world by a mile, and over 2 trillion (2,000,000,000,000) searches are carried out every year. However, did you know that Google is actually much more than just a search engine?

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16 Facts About Consumerism That'll Blow Your Mind

Every year Americans spend trillions of dollars on clothing, electronics, homes and household items, cars and a billion other products. It’s hard to believe the staggering amounts being spent. Here are some other mind blowing facts about the USA’s consumer habits.

Science and Technology

Incredible: First-Ever Complete Map of an Insect's Brain

In contrast, the human brain has over 20 billion neurons and trillions of connections! "If we want to understand who we are and how we think, part of that is understanding the mechanism of thought," says Joshua T. Vogelstein, a biomedical engineer at Johns Hopkins University.

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A Few Things We Bet You Never Knew About the USA!

During the 2015 tax year, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assessed a total income tax of $1.454 trillion on Americans from a total of 150.6 million tax returns. This showed that the average American owed $9,655 in income tax at the time the statistics were collected.

Nature

20 Photos Capturing the Universe’s Most Stunning Galaxies

A Cosmic Gallery of Unusually Lovely and Colorful Galaxies

Galaxy W2246-0526, the most luminous known galaxy in the universe, 350 trillion times brighter than the sun (By (NRAO/AUI/NSF) S. Dagnello, Wikimedia Commons ) 14. Hoag’s Object, an unusual ring galaxy with a yellow nucleus (By NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team, Wikimedia Commons ) 15.

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Why Does It Hurt So Much - Touching and Beautiful.

And each galaxy contains trillions of solar systems, and an almost infinite number of planets. And so these colossal things move through space for ages on end. Our lives, our whole history, are like a wink to them. Candles that are quickly snuffed out. What is one death?

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10 Blood-Curdling Facts From Modern Life and History

It was estimated that around 1.2 trillion gallons of industrial waste, sewage, and stormwater are dumped into US water every year. This may be the creepiest fact yet! Related Article: 14 Creepy Facts That Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine 10.

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