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Engineering
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How hydraulic engineering designed colossal steel barriers that rest on the seabed and float in minutes to stop high tide.
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.
History
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A single-engine light aircraft crossed more than seven hundred kilometers of Soviet airspace without being shot down and triggered a military purge that changed the Cold War.
Engineering
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The tallest skyscraper on the planet does not rest on solid rock, but on an ingenious underground forest of concrete anchored by pure friction.
Engineering
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To install the first modern sewer system and curb cholera, engineers lifted entire brick blocks several meters using thousands of hydraulic and jackscrews.
Engineering
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For over a month, engineers moved and rotated an eight-story mass by 90 degrees with 600 employees working inside.
Science and technology
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How a sharp thermal shock generates colossal internal stresses capable of withstanding hydraulic presses and traveling at hypersonic speed when cracked.
Nature
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Science and technology
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The mathematical concept that took millennia to be accepted and revolutionized science
Biology
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In the freezing waters of the Southern Ocean lives a creature with blood as transparent as water, translucent bones, and a heart four times larger than usual.
Engineering
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How thousands of passive thermosiphons keep tracks at an altitude of 5,000 meters from collapsing into permafrost mud.
Biology
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These invertebrates rebuild an entire organism from a tiny fragment and retain learned behaviors after regenerating their brain.