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Health and wellness
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Far from inhaling air symmetrically, your nervous system inflates and deflates your nostrils in a continuous relay to optimize your smell and protect your lungs.
Nature
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Surprising athletic abilities of flightless birds
Biology
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A tiny planthopper showed that biomechanics devised interlocking gears millions of years before humans.
Animals
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In tropical rainforests lives a tiny insect that piles dozens of dead ants on its back to deceive the senses of its greatest enemies.
Science and technology
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In 1989, physics defied the barrier of the invisible when a scientist pushed 35 xenon atoms to spell out the letters 'IBM'.
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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With a nervous system the size of a pinhead, this predator demonstrates levels of spatial calculation and tactical deception previously attributed only to vertebrates.
Animals
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How a tiny insect developed microscopic cogwheels millions of years before humanity devised modern engineering.
History
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In 1967, a lightning war stranded hundreds of sailors in the Great Bitter Lake, giving rise to an unusual floating community.
Science and technology
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How unrolling ordinary tape in a vacuum produces enough radiation to photograph hand bones.
Nature
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Mudskippers are masters of adaptation, able to survive and thrive both in water and on dry land.
Nature
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Discover how entire ecosystems thrive in the abyssal darkness thanks to surprising chemistry that challenges solar dependence.