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Engineering
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
Engineering
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How an innovative trench of liquid clay and concrete created a one-kilometer underground shield to hold back water pressure.
Animals
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In tropical rainforests lives a tiny insect that piles dozens of dead ants on its back to deceive the senses of its greatest enemies.
Biology
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It injects a handful of cells into its host's joint, chemically castrates it, and reprograms its behavior to turn it into a surrogate mother.
Nature
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On the remote Darwin and Wolf islands, this small bird pecks at huge sea boobies to feed on their blood without facing resistance.
Animals
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In the abysses of the Indian Ocean, Chrysomallon squamiferum reinforces its shell and body with iron sulfides to resist crushing claws and boiling waters.
Engineering
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In the 19th century, observing a tiny naval wood-borer solved the greatest dilemma in tunneling.
Animals
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The jaw snap of Mystrium camillae accelerates from zero to top speed in just 23 microseconds.
Animals
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At barely twelve centimeters in length, this tiny Japanese fish carves complex two-meter mandalas into the seabed to court and protect its eggs.
Nature
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How a tiny shell-less mollusk consumes Portuguese man-of-war and stores their stinging cells intact to become more toxic than its prey.
Nature
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Nature
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In the depths of the Indian Ocean lives the only known animal capable of incorporating iron sulfide directly into its skeleton.