Scott and SadieIt’s time for “Nerd News,” covering the most important news for your brain.
Here’s a quick rundown of this week in science . . .
1. A team in Switzerland may have finally answered the question, “Which came first, the chicken of the egg?” A single-celled organism from a billion years ago already had similar characteristics to embryos. It suggests the ability to make eggs was around long before chickens were. So, the EGG came first.
2. In dinner news: British scientists created the world’s thinnest spaghetti, and it’s much thinner than angel hair. 372 nanometers wide means 200 times thinner than a human hair. It’s so thin, you can’t even see it. It’s invisible pasta.
3. In nutrition: A study found we absorb a small amount of vitamins from breathing them in. It’s obviously not enough to survive on, but it doesn’t hurt. The average person breathes in 9,000 liters of air a day, and 438 million liters over the course of their life.
4. In space news: We took the first zoomed-in picture of a star that’s not in our galaxy. It’s pretty fuzzy, but still impressive considering it’s 160,000 light years away. Every star you can see in the night sky is part of the Milky Way.
5. And speaking of the Milky Way: Tomorrow marks the 100th anniversary of when we learned the universe was bigger than just our own galaxy. “The New York Times” published an article on November 23rd, 1924 after Edwin Hubble realized Andromeda was a whole other galaxy. We eventually learned there are billions of galaxies out there.
