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Engineering
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The Scottish engineering feat that uses Archimedes' principle and planetary gears to lift ships twenty-four meters high.
Health and wellness
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A microscopic conveyor belt propels all inhaled debris toward the throat before it reaches your alveoli.
Science and technology
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Weighing 1,000 tonnes and with a 13-tesla magnetic field, this engineering marvel will govern a plasma at 150 million degrees Celsius.
Science and technology
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NASA polished quartz with such atomic precision that, scaled to the size of Earth, the highest mountain would measure less than two meters.
Animals
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Far from being a jousting lance or an aesthetic ornament, this cetacean's horn is a sophisticated biological sensor wired to its brain.
Geology
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On the walls of the Grand Canyon and across various continents, Cambrian strata rest directly on ancient basement rocks, hiding a fifth of the planet's history.
History
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In 332 BC, the Macedonian conqueror built a nearly one-kilometer causeway across the Mediterranean Sea that permanently altered the planet's geography.
Biology
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How Ambystoma maculatum broke a biological dogma by hosting living solar algae in its own embryonic cytoplasm.
Nature
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Discovered thousands of meters below sea level, these annelids feast on whale bone remains and harbor dozens of microscopic males within their bodies.
Science and technology
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With no oxide layers or atmosphere to stand in the way, two identical metal parts fuse permanently upon direct contact.
Biology
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The ocean's most primitive deep-sea creature produces a substance capable of expanding 10,000 times in seawater to clog the gills of its attackers.
Nature
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Extraordinary adaptations for desert survival