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Health and wellness
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Decades after childbirth, cell populations from offspring continue to patrol the maternal organism and come to the rescue after wounds or heart attacks.
Science and technology
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How two four-kilometer laser arms managed to record gravitational waves by mastering the quantum noise of light.
Engineering
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How civil engineering managed to cross the Gulf of Corinth by erecting a 2.8-kilometer cable-stayed viaduct over an active tectonic fault without anchoring its piers to bedrock.
Science and technology
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The Nobel Prize-winning technology that uses hyperfocused lasers to hold and move individual microbes without damaging them.
Engineering
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The concentration of nearly forty billion tons of water in its reservoir altered the planet's moment of inertia and shifted its axis by two centimeters.
Animals
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Discover how this unusual subterranean rodent cheats brain death by replacing glucose with fructose during complete asphyxia.
Nature
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Discovered in 1998, this amazing cephalopod analyzes its attacker and copies the body and movements of the predator that terrifies it most.
Engineering
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The concrete colossus would have taken 125 years to cool naturally, cracking beyond repair without a daring internal refrigeration network.
Biology
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The astonishing discovery of multicellular creatures in the marine abyss that replaced their mitochondria with anaerobic organelles.
Health and wellness
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The smallest muscle in the human body dampens the vibration of your auditory bones in milliseconds to soften lethal sounds and your own speech.
Animals
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Smaller than a single-celled amoeba, this microscopic creature flies and hunts after dismantling the DNA of 95% of its adult nervous system.
Health and wellness
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For decades it was considered a secondary, expendable filter, but it holds a massive reservoir of monocytes ready to rescue vital tissues.