As we wait for science to save our hides (again), a FactSlap homage to the peer-reviewed art:

• 41 new species are discovered by science every single day.
• Scientists finally concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes egg shells is only produced by hens.
• “Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia” is the scientific term for brain freeze.
• The average number of readers of any given published scientific paper is 0.6.
• A new scientific method called ‘toxineering’ turns venoms into painkillers.
• Scientists have developed a way of charging mobile phones using urine.
• Scientists can turn peanut butter into diamonds.
• Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, so we can live without breathing.
• A bolt of lightning is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun.