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Health and wellness
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Far from being an inert mineral scaffold, your bones produce a hormone that activates the fight-or-flight response in a matter of seconds.
Biology
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Faced with the El Niño phenomenon, this reptile reabsorbs up to 20% of its skeleton and regenerates it when food returns.
Nature
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Discover 'Pseudis paradoxa', the vertebrate that baffled science with a regressive metamorphosis where the adult is much smaller than its young.
Nature
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Chrysomallon squamiferum incorporates pyrite and greigite nanoparticles into its exoskeleton to survive crushing and abyssal heat.
Nature
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Discovered thousands of meters below sea level, these annelids feast on whale bone remains and harbor dozens of microscopic males within their bodies.
Science and technology
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Under colossal pressures, water molecules dissociate into an oxygen crystal lattice crossed by liquid protons.
Health and wellness
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Far from being a simple inert scaffold, the human skeleton functions as a sophisticated metabolic organ that communicates chemically with the brain and muscles.
Geology
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Hundreds of redcedars submerged in saline mud allowed geologists to date a magnitude 9 earthquake that dropped the coastline and sent a tsunami to Japan.
Nature
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In ocean depths, this marine animal synthesizes a silica skeleton that outperforms human engineering and hosts an unusual lifelong symbiosis.
Nature
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Facing scarcity caused by El Niño, this reptile reabsorbs its skeleton to reduce its body length by up to 20% and then rebuilds it.
Nature
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An aquatic insect defies death by traveling through a frog's digestive tract in minutes and forcing its own defecation.
Biology
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A tiny planthopper showed that biomechanics devised interlocking gears millions of years before humans.