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Biology
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It is the only known organism in the entire animal kingdom capable of functionally replacing a complete organ of its host.
Nature
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The wood wide web: a natural internet connecting entire forests
Science and technology
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Why could traveling to the past create logical contradictions impossible to resolve?
Biology
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It injects a handful of cells into its host's joint, chemically castrates it, and reprograms its behavior to turn it into a surrogate mother.
Health and wellness
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During gestation, embryonic stem cells colonize maternal organs to integrate for life and come to the rescue during severe injuries.
Nature
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Long before military technology designed electronic countermeasures, a moth was already hacking biosonar systems in nature.
Nature
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The only known organism capable of biologically and functionally replacing an entire organ in a vertebrate animal.
History
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How a stifling heatwave and a collapsed river forced history's greatest sanitary engineering revolution.
Health and wellness
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Evolution designed breast milk's third most abundant component not to nourish the newborn, but to cultivate a guardian microbe.
Health and wellness
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During gestation, embryonic stem cells cross the placenta and integrate into maternal organs for decades, actively helping in their regeneration.
Nature
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Discover how this amazing arachnid abandons the traditional spiderweb to become a master of chemical mimicry and sticky projectile throwing.
Nature
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This elusive orchid defies traditional photosynthesis, living off air and humidity in subtropical swamps.