A palm-sized pink rodent overturns our assumptions about mammals again and again – a eusocial colony ruled by a single queen, a body in which… Read More »The Naked Mole-Rat: Barely Knowing Cancer, Living 30 Years
More than 80,000 woodblocks have lasted over 770 years with no special machinery. From wild-cherry blocks, end pieces and lacquer to Janggyeong Panjeon’s siting, lattice… Read More »How 80,000 Woodblocks Survived 770 Years — The Conservation Design of the Tripitaka Koreana and Janggyeong Panjeon
The eerie blue glow of a reactor pool is not the color of radioactivity, nor a broken speed limit of light. It is a ‘sonic… Read More »Why Do Reactor Pools Glow Blue? Cherenkov Radiation and Particles Faster Than Light in Water
Its name says ‘shrimp’ but it is not a true shrimp; its fist flies through water like a bullet and boils it; and its famously… Read More »A Fist That Boils Water and 12 Color Receptors — Two Beliefs the Mantis Shrimp Overturns
A superconductor floating above a magnet stays put even when flipped or tilted. The force that lifts it and the force that locks it are… Read More »A Metal Disk Frozen in Mid-Air — Why a Superconductor Won’t Fall Even Hanging Upside Down
The electric eel is not actually an eel. A South American knifefish, it turns its whole body into a living battery of thousands of electrocytes… Read More »The Fish That Is a Battery — How the Electric Eel Makes 860 Volts
