The Week In Numbers: World's Oldest Primate, Big Bang Mystery Solved, And More
Rendering of Archicebus achilles CAS/Xijun Ni 55 million years: the age of the sedimentary rock strata in which scientists discovered this skeleton of a Archicebus achilles, the oldest-known primate fossil 90 days: the record-breaking time in which a Chinese firm plans to build the world's next tallest building, the 2,750-foot, 220-story Sky City 2017: the year NASA will test an intergalactic GPS that can determine your location even in deep space 300 light-years: the distance from Earth to this newly discovered planet, the lightest exoplanet ever caught on camera 2.6 miles: the span of last week's tornado in El Reno, Okla., the widest twister ever recorded 70 percent: the percent by which the presence of nearby islands can worsen a tsunami, according to a new computer simulation 1 million: the average number of skin cells a human loses in a 24-hour period (that's why people lose their tans in the winter) $30,000: the cost to train a...