• Look up! The biggest full moon in 15 years (if you’re in the Northern hemisphere) will rise tonight…like an extra-large pizza.
• There are more than one billion people in the world who speak Chinese. Still, the Max Planck Institute didn’t bother to find one to proofread the calligraphy splashed across the cover of their science journal. The “classical poem” turned out to be a racy brothel ad.
• Is it a boy or a girl? A baby’s sex may be determined by the father’s genes.
• Scientists find that bats’ echolocation can hit 110 decibels—about as loud as an iPod on full volume.
