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Engineering
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Suspended between floors 87 and 92, this steel mass acts as an inertial counterweight that dampens the swaying of the Taiwanese colossus without using electricity.
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.
Engineering
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A masterpiece of Scottish engineering that uses Archimedes' principle to lift boats 24 meters high.
Science and technology
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Scientists at the University of Bristol created a betavoltaic device capable of generating continuous electricity by taking advantage of residual graphite from atomic power plants.
Science and technology
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How to break the hydrodynamic drag barrier to travel at more than 370 km/h in the depths of the ocean.
Science and technology
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Discovered in the 17th century, these glass tears hold molecular stresses so extreme that they release destructive waves at over 1,600 meters per second.
Science and technology
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The technology that traps liquid droplets, drugs, and tiny objects suspended in midair using ultrasonic pressure nodes.
Science and technology
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How a tiny rotation between two atomic sheets created an entire branch of modern physics called twistronics.
Animals
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How a mangrove fish compensates for light refraction and manipulates hydrodynamics to shoot down prey two meters away.
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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A marvel of quantum physics capable of keeping time without losing a single second in 30,000 million years and measuring Einstein's time dilation on a lab bench.
Science and technology
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The extreme temperature of one of nature's most powerful phenomena