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Biology
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How this bird strikes wood at 1,200 times the force of gravity without suffering any brain damage.
History
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Hidden behind a false wall in a high-security German fortress, a group of British officers built a functional aircraft using bed slats and millet porridge.
Nature
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Hura crepitans combines a trunk covered in venomous spikes with mechanical capsules that explode like pistol shots to spread its offspring.
History
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For twenty-one years, an entire metropolis played along with a throneless monarch who issued his own banknotes and decreed works ahead of his time.
Geology
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A tiny diamond from Brazil showed that hundreds of kilometers deep there is as much water as in all surface oceans combined.
Nature
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The wood wide web: a natural internet connecting entire forests
Nature
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The importance of photosynthesis and the carbon cycle
Nature
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Secret chemical networks of the plant kingdom
Engineering
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How a self-taught watchmaker raised the world's largest masonry vault without using a single wooden centering frame
Nature
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A sophisticated cryoprotective shield of glucose and urea allows it to survive the Alaskan winter turned into a real block of ice.
Engineering
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In the 19th century, observing a tiny naval wood-borer solved the greatest dilemma in tunneling.
Engineering
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In 1930, engineers lifted and rotated an eight-story skyscraper without interrupting a single phone call or breaking a pipe.