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Animals
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A tiny deep-sea shark uses deceptive bioluminescence and vacuum lips to gouge circular bites out of ocean giants.
Engineering
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Connecting Europe and Asia under the Bosphorus Strait using gigantic concrete modules submerged with millimeter precision.
Animals
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How a tiny crustacean creates cavitation bubbles that collapse releasing temperatures close to the Sun's and a deafening sound.
Engineering
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In 1995, the devastating Kobe earthquake pushed the colossal underwater support towers apart, forcing engineers to redesign the project on the fly.
Nature
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Long before military technology designed electronic countermeasures, a moth was already hacking biosonar systems in nature.
Animals
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The tiny marine creature whose claw creates cavitation bubbles that collapse at over 4,700 °C and exceed 210 decibels.
Science and technology
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Discover how structures engineered with nanometric precision can alter light, sound, and vibration, unlocking a universe of technological possibilities.
Science and technology
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Engineering fluids with unprecedented sound properties for disruptive applications
Nature
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Discover how this tiny crustacean generates shock waves capable of stunning prey and breaking glass, creating a 'weapon' hotter than the surface of the sun.
Nature
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How this peculiar semiaquatic mammal detects prey with invisible electric fields.
Nature
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Discover how this crustacean uses a cavitation bubble to trigger an explosion hotter than the Sun's surface to stun its prey.
Biology
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Incredible echolocation, a natural sonar that lets these mammals navigate and hunt with astonishing accuracy without relying on sight.