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Fun: Why is a human body halfway between the mass of a proton and the sun?

That’s what they say, anyway, at Wolfram Math: “The human body has a mass that, more or less, is halfway between the mass of the proton (~1.672×10 ² kg) and the mass of the Sun (~1.988×10³ kg). A value very close to the mass of an average human body is the geometric mean of those two values”

Convergent evolution of cobra venom

Researchers: "This is the first clear example of snake venom evolving for defence, and provides a remarkable example of convergent evolution, or how natural selection can cause the same solution to a problem to evolve multiple times." Sure, it all just somehow happens with no underlying intelligence in nature? Read More ›