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Science and technology
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In 2011, a group of physicists proved that nothingness is not empty by transforming virtual particles into tangible light using mirrors at relativistic speeds.
Science and technology
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A thermodynamic feat that lowers temperature without consuming electricity by sending terrestrial heat directly into the cosmic vacuum.
Nature
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A unique cellular microstructure turns the feathers of these birds into a biological black hole comparable to Vantablack.
Health and wellness
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For over a century, medicine believed bone marrow monopolized blood cell formation, until advanced microscopy revealed a hidden cellular workshop in the chest.
Science and technology
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In 1999, a team of Harvard physicists managed to slow a beam of light down to bicycle speed using a Bose-Einstein condensate.
Biology
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A coat of microscopic prismatic hairs and ultrasonic strides allow this tiny arthropod to survive the planet's deadliest sun.
Science and technology
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Suspended in an electromagnetic vacuum trap, a single ion emitted enough photons to be captured in a historic image without an electron microscope.
Science and technology
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Plants use quantum effects to achieve near-perfect energy efficiency
Science and technology
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UCLA scientists demonstrated that unrolling ordinary tape in a vacuum chamber produces pulses of ionizing radiation through extreme triboluminescence.
Biology
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A protein in the retina uses quantum entanglement to project the planet's magnetic lines directly into birds' vision.
Biology
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A microscopic marvel without a brain or neurons that fused mitochondria and chloroplasts to build a perfect lens and retina.
Science and technology
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How subatomic particles exceed the local speed of light in water and unleash a dazzling electromagnetic shock wave.