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Science and technology
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Sound waves in water can compress gas until it releases flashes of light hotter than 12,000 degrees Celsius.
Nature
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The 1883 Krakatoa eruption ruptured eardrums and circled the globe 4 times
Engineering
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The planet's greatest electromechanical naval feat overcomes a forty-story elevation difference in just forty minutes.
Animals
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Its epidermis features a network of capillary microchannels that pump moisture from sand to its mouth without moving a single muscle.
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.
Engineering
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The colossal 9.7-kilometer Malaysian engineering feat that clears vehicular traffic in minutes to channel three million cubic meters of floodwaters.
Engineering
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The colossal hydraulic work of submerged pneumatic barriers on the seabed that inflate with air to stop high tide.
History
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In the year 897, the Roman basilica of Saint John Lateran hosted one of the most macabre and bizarre legal episodes in medieval history.
Animals
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In less than 100 milliseconds, this primitive fish releases microthreads that turn seawater into liters of suffocating gel.
Biology
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A tiny planthopper showed that biomechanics devised interlocking gears millions of years before humans.
History
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In 52 BC, Roman legions built more than 35 kilometers of concentric fortifications to fight on two fronts simultaneously.
Science and technology
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How metamaterial physics lowers temperature in broad daylight without using energy, shooting radiation into the cosmos