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Biology
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The bile pigment biliverdin dyes their muscles, bones, and tongue, turning a lethal waste product into an unusual cellular shield.
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.
Biology
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How a suicidal larva takes control of an insect's jaws to force it to wait patiently on a blade of grass to be eaten
Animals
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Far from delivering blind shocks, this fish emits calibrated pulses that force victims to reveal their hiding spots and takes control of their neurons.
History
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For twenty-one years, an entire metropolis played along with a throneless monarch who issued his own banknotes and decreed works ahead of his time.
Science and technology
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Microscopic nanobots designed to repair tissues and fight diseases
Health and wellness
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With a temperature that exceeds the rest of the body by nearly one degree, it functions as a silent biochemical furnace.
Nature
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A sophisticated cryoprotective shield of glucose and urea allows it to survive the Alaskan winter turned into a real block of ice.
Geology
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How the thermal contraction of magma creates gigantic hexagonal stone prisms
Biology
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To dodge predators while sleeping, it concentrates nearly 90% of its red blood cells in a single organ without forming clots.
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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Neither conventional solid nor pure liquid: how scientists recreated a state of water as hot as magma that dominates the universe.