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Health and wellness
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Far from being an inert mineral scaffold, your bones produce a hormone that activates the fight-or-flight response in a matter of seconds.
Biology
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Faced with the El Niño phenomenon, this reptile reabsorbs up to 20% of its skeleton and regenerates it when food returns.
Health and wellness
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For over a century, medicine believed bone marrow monopolized blood cell formation, until advanced microscopy revealed a hidden cellular workshop in the chest.
Animals
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The amazing anatomical feat that allows it to hammer wood at 25 km/h without suffering any brain damage
Biology
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In the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean lives a creature with blood as transparent as water, translucent bones, and a heart four times larger than usual.
Animals
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Under attack by a predator, this unusual inhabitant of central Africa pierces its own skin with blade-sharp phalanges.
Health and wellness
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Unlike white fat that stores energy, this tissue acts like a metabolic heater capable of consuming glucose at full speed.
Nature
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With a lifespan exceeding four hundred years, this Arctic giant keeps intact proteins in its eyes dating back to the 17th century.
Science and technology
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UCLA scientists demonstrated that unrolling ordinary tape in a vacuum chamber produces pulses of ionizing radiation through extreme triboluminescence.
Nature
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Discovered thousands of meters below sea level, these annelids feast on whale bone remains and harbor dozens of microscopic males within their bodies.
Animals
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Its hyper-elongated third finger taps trunks up to eight times per second to detect hollows inhabited by grubs before gnawing the bark with rodent-like incisors.
Science and technology
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These aquatic salamanders can regenerate limbs, organs, and even parts of the brain