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Biology
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How an extreme cocktail of glucose and urea allows this vertebrate to survive the Arctic winter by turning its body into a block of ice with no heartbeat.
Health and wellness
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An evolutionary remnant hidden in your face can slow your pulse and reset the nervous system upon contact with cold water.
Engineering
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The planet's greatest electromechanical naval feat overcomes a forty-story elevation difference in just forty minutes.
Engineering
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How precision engineering joined two excavation fronts beneath 2,300 meters of solid rock with millimeter accuracy.
Engineering
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Beneath the surface of the Japanese capital lies a monumental chamber supported by 59 pillars weighing 500 tons and powered by airplane turbines.
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.
Biology
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During its winter hibernation, this rodent lowers its body temperature down to -2.9 °C through an astonishing process of biological supercooling.
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.
Geology
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In the Great Rift Valley, this Tanzanian colossus defies the laws of volcanism with magma as fluid as water that turns snow-white as it cools.
Animals
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Discover how this unusual inhabitant of polar seas defied the laws of animal biology by surviving without red blood cells thanks to a giant heart and natural antifreeze.
Nature
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A fleeting touch with its leaves is enough to embed thousands of microscopic silica hairs loaded with a neurotoxin that defies time.
Health and wellness
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How a small muscle band in your calf acts as a circulatory pump and an autonomous metabolic reactor.