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Engineering
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A masterpiece of Scottish engineering that uses Archimedes' principle to lift boats 24 meters high.
Animals
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The absolute record for non-stop migratory flight requires doubling body fat and cannibalizing its own viscera to shed weight.
Science and technology
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Discover why this natural material outperforms many man-made alloys
Nature
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Surprising athletic abilities of flightless birds
History
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In 1976, the United States and South Korea mobilized aircraft carriers, B-52 bombers, and hundreds of soldiers to cut down a single poplar on the Korean border.
Nature
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At barely 200 micrometers long, this insect found a radical biological solution: dissolving 95% of its brain DNA to be able to fly.
History
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The daring tactic of the Soviet regiment that glided with idle engines in the dark to bomb the invader undetected.
Science and technology
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MIT scientists managed to fly an aircraft powered solely by electroaerodynamics, without propellers, turbines, or combustion.
Animals
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How this small bird crosses the Pacific Ocean in one go, completing over 13,000 kilometers without eating, drinking, or landing.
Science and technology
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Measuring the temporal echo of single photons allows reconstructing 3D objects completely outside the field of view.
Nature
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In the heart of the Amazon lives a bird whose crop functions like an ox's rumen and whose chicks climb trees with prehistoric limbs.
Animals
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An ancient evolutionary partnership where birds and African foragers converse with ancestral sounds to harvest beehives.