12 scientific facts we didn't know before 2017

The steady progress of science, expanding our understanding of this world, will never stop.

1. The lungs not only allow us to breathe, but they also make blood.Specifically, the lungs of mammals generally produce more than 10 million platelets per hour. That number is roughly equal to the majority of platelets circulating in our bodies right now.

2. Mathematically, we can build a time machine.What holds humans back, not allowing us to go back to the past (or forward to the future), is that we have not yet found a material that can bend the structure of space-time.

3. The permafrost in the Batagaika sinkhole is melting so fast that it is exposing an ancient forest that was covered in ice.

4. We created an “alien” life form.It is a semi-artificial living organism made up of four nucleotides, G, T, C and A - the base nucleotide pairs in every DNA strand, which control the formation and development of organisms.

5. We could coat anything in vantablack and everything would turn into a black hole.

6. We get a new state of matter called time crystal.Now we have a “manual” for creating this fantastic material.

7. Our body has another organ that for over 100 years, it has been there without us knowing.That is the mesentery located in our digestive system.

8. The rarest and oldest dog breed on Earth is still alive and well.Although it looks very similar to dogs in Vietnam, but in fact the animals are New Guinea highland wild dogs.

9. Lying below New Zealand is Earth's eighth continent, Zealandia.At least it has the makings of a continent, and scientists are urging other communities to recognize Zealandia's status.

10. Humans have changed the Earth so much that scientists named a whole new geological epoch after humans: the Anthropocene (Anthropic means “of humans”).That momentous day, the day the Earth officially entered the Anthropocene Era, was July 16, 1945.

11. Narwhal horn has an unexpected effect:They use their long (and strange) horns to hunt Arctic cod, smashing and stunning the fish to make them easier to catch and eat.

12. NASA probe discovered that the Earth's outer layer is a "giant artificial protective membrane".We have changed the Universe, or at least we have had an impact on the space around Earth.

According to GenK