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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.
Geology
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A near-miraculous thermal equilibrium 300 meters underground allowed the development of the planet's largest selenite beams.
Biology
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A tiny North American rodent defies extreme survival by producing its own hydration from dry seeds
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.
History
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Strychnine doping, car-riding impostors, wild dog attacks, and an impromptu nap in the middle of the race.
Health and wellness
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Your body performs an automatic double inhalation every five minutes to keep your lungs from deflating and to calibrate your nervous system.
Nature
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The importance of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
Health and wellness
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Science shows that emitting a simple vocal hum ventilates the paranasal sinuses, neutralizes pathogens, and optimizes cellular oxygenation.
Health and wellness
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How a colony of microorganisms in your mouth turns vegetables into nitric oxide, the essential vasodilator for your arteries.
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.
Animals
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Able to shut down its metabolism and breathe air, this living fossil can wait for rain for more than five years in an underground cocoon.
Science and technology
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How a common roll of office tape can emit radiation pulses intense enough to X-ray a human bone.