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Animals
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It has 22 hypersensitive tentacles with which it identifies and devours prey in less than two-tenths of a second.
Science and technology
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How to break the hydrodynamic drag barrier to travel at more than 370 km/h in the depths of the ocean.
Nature
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An aquatic insect defies death by traveling through a frog's digestive tract in minutes and forcing its own defecation.
Nature
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At barely three centimeters long, 'Glaucus atlanticus' devours lethal tentacles to store the venomous micro-harpoons of its prey inside its own tissues.
Nature
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Argyroneta aquatica is the only arachnid that spends its entire life underwater thanks to a silk dome that acts as an external gill.
Geology
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In southern Iran, colossal salt domes breach the Earth's crust and slide down arid slopes in an unusual display of active diapirism.
Geology
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How the thermal contraction of magma creates gigantic hexagonal stone prisms
Science and technology
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Microscopic bubbles trapped in liquids collapse under ultrasound and reach temperatures hotter than the Sun
Animals
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The tiny marine creature whose claw creates cavitation bubbles that collapse at over 4,700 °C and exceed 210 decibels.
Geology
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How an atmospheric discharge of 30,000 °C melts sand in milliseconds to carve hollow geological sculptures.
Nature
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How a tiny shell-less mollusk consumes Portuguese man-of-war and stores their stinging cells intact to become more toxic than its prey.
Science and technology
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How the deliberate creation of a vapor bubble eliminates nearly all water resistance and redefines hydrodynamic limits.