If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour.

Somewhere in the flicker of a badly tuned TV set is the background radiation from the Big Bang.

Female black widow spiders eat their males after mating.

The first synthetic human chromosome was constructed by US scientists in 1997.

Englishman Roger Bacon invented the magnifying glass in 1250.

The largest dinosaur ever discovered was Seismosaurus who was over 100 feet long and weighed up to 80 tonnes.

A salmon-rich, low cholesterol diet means that Inuits rarely suffer from heart disease.

Our oldest radio broadcasts of the 1930s have already travelled past 100,000 stars.