Every Atom in Your Body Was Forged Inside a Dying Star Billions of Years Ago
The carbon in your cells, the iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones — every heavy element in your body was cre…
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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