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Engineering
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How the 1995 Kobe earthquake pushed apart the towers of the world's longest suspension bridge before its cables were installed
Animals
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This biological relic of the Amazon swims as a chick, climbs branches with reptilian fingers, and digests leaves through bacterial fermentation
Health and wellness
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The vascular engineering that directly connects arteries and veins in non-hairy skin to cool your body in record time
Biology
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The nymph of this small jumping insect synchronizes its legs with microscopic mechanical teeth to maintain control in the air.
Engineering
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A civil engineering marvel that solved a nearly century-old logistical dilemma by floating cargo ships over the waters of the Elbe
Nature
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Discovered in Madagascar, it weaves the planet's most colossal orb webs suspended from cables up to twenty-five meters long
History
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How a modest rented light aircraft crossed thousands of kilometers of the most heavily fortified airspace on the planet to land before the Kremlin
Engineering
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Why Denmark and Sweden had to invent an untouched ecosystem in the middle of the strait to connect two nations by land.
Engineering
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With a pier taller than the Eiffel Tower, this French cable-stayed bridge was assembled in midair by sliding thousands of tons of steel over the abyss.
Engineering
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In 1995, the devastating Kobe earthquake pushed the colossal underwater support towers apart, forcing engineers to redesign the project on the fly.
Geology
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More than 2,400 million years ago, the first biological oxygen triggered a colossal rust precipitation that covered the seafloor and formed most of the iron we mine today.
History
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For twenty-one years, an entire metropolis played along with a throneless monarch who issued his own banknotes and decreed works ahead of his time.