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Engineering
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Connecting Europe and Asia under the Bosphorus Strait using gigantic concrete modules submerged with millimeter precision.
Biology
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How this bird strikes wood at 1,200 times the force of gravity without suffering any brain damage.
Biology
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A tiny inhabitant of Pacific tides that does not synthesize its own toxin, but instead relies for its lethal defense on symbiotic bacteria in its salivary glands.
Health and wellness
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For decades, endorphins were credited for post-workout bliss, but neuroscience discovered that the brain produces its own cannabinoid to dispel pain and anxiety.
History
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Five days before the end of World War II in Europe, US troops, Wehrmacht soldiers, and French prisoners joined forces to repel a Waffen-SS siege.
History
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The daring 1943 British stratagem that used a false identity attached to a body at sea to conceal the invasion of Sicily.
Science and technology
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How a tiny rotation between two atomic sheets created an entire branch of modern physics called twistronics.
Nature
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The incredible sleep resistance of the tallest mammal
Science and technology
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A technological revolution that stores 700 terabytes in glass
Science and technology
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The mathematical concept that took millennia to be accepted and revolutionized science
Health and wellness
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The human microbiome weighs 2 kilograms and controls everything from your mood to your immunity
Health and wellness
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How a colony of microorganisms in your mouth turns vegetables into nitric oxide, the essential vasodilator for your arteries.