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Nature
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A fleeting touch with its leaves is enough to embed thousands of microscopic silica hairs loaded with a neurotoxin that defies time.
Nature
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How Malacosteus niger broke the rules of the deep ocean by developing night vision that its prey cannot see
Science and technology
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The extreme temperature of one of nature's most powerful phenomena
Nature
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How these social insects communicate complex information about food location and quality
Nature
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Science and technology
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Microscopic nanobots designed to repair tissues and fight diseases
Science and technology
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Plants use quantum effects to achieve near-perfect energy efficiency
Nature
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Why these reptiles cry while eating and what it teaches us about evolution
Nature
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In the peaks of Borneo, this plant abandoned hunting insects to feed on treeshrew feces using a laxative nectar.
Engineering
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The colossal hydraulic work of submerged pneumatic barriers on the seabed that inflate with air to stop high tide.
Science and technology
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Discovered amid skepticism and ridicule, they broke two centuries of crystallographic laws by displaying symmetries believed impossible in nature.
Biology
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How a hormonal storm of testosterone and cortisol turns this mammal's reproduction into a deadly race of no return.