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Animals
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Discover how this unusual inhabitant of polar seas defied the laws of animal biology by surviving without red blood cells thanks to a giant heart and natural antifreeze.
Health and wellness
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To maintain transparency and allow clear vision, the eye dispensed with capillaries and absorbs gas dissolved in the tear film.
Health and wellness
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Far from being an expendable organ, it houses a tactical reserve of millions of cells ready to deploy in a vascular crisis.
Biology
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To dodge predators while sleeping, it concentrates nearly 90% of its red blood cells in a single organ without forming clots.
Science and technology
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The Nobel Prize in Physics that turned the force of photons into invisible fingers capable of unwinding DNA.
Nature
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In the frigid waters of the Southern Ocean survives a creature that defied biology by completely shedding red blood cells and hemoglobin.
Health and wellness
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Discover the hidden mechanism by which the human body performs an instant autotransfusion of red blood cells when it detects a lack of air or intense exercise.
Nature
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Discover how these tropical amphibians use their nearly invisible skin and visible organs as a master camouflage strategy in the rainforest.
Nature
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In frigid polar waters, a marine species has evolved to survive without hemoglobin, using antifreeze proteins and a revolutionary metabolism.
Nature
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Discover how the icefish survives sub-zero temperatures without red blood cells, revealing a unique adaptation to extreme life.