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Engineering
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Standing as tall as a thirty-story building with a titanic bucket wheel, this German machine moves mountains while consuming the electricity of a city.
Engineering
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Suspended between floors 87 and 92, this steel mass acts as an inertial counterweight that dampens the swaying of the Taiwanese colossus without using electricity.
Engineering
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A masterpiece of Scottish engineering that uses Archimedes' principle to lift boats 24 meters high.
Science and technology
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Scientists at the University of Bristol created a betavoltaic device capable of generating continuous electricity by taking advantage of residual graphite from atomic power plants.
Animals
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Far from delivering blind shocks, this fish emits calibrated pulses that force victims to reveal their hiding spots and takes control of their neurons.
Science and technology
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The extreme temperature of one of nature's most powerful phenomena
Science and technology
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How metamaterial physics lowers temperature in broad daylight without using energy, shooting radiation into the cosmos
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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Discover how plants alter their electrical charge to warn insects if nectar is still available.
Animals
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Beyond electrocuting, this Amazonian predator emits precise pulses to take involuntary control of its prey's nervous system in three milliseconds.
Science and technology
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How atomic structures that science considered mathematically and physically impossible transformed the physics of matter.
Science and technology
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Scientists manage to cool surfaces below ambient temperature in direct sunlight by emitting heat directly into the cosmic vacuum.