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FinGripper
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FinGripper
Festo designed its FinGripper based on the movements of a fish tail.
Sail Wing
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Sail Wing
Sailboats can actually fly faster than the speed of the wind in their wings.
How Batteries Work
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How Batteries Work
To create an electricity-powered vehicle, you need a battery that holds enough energy.
Plants White
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Plants White
Lead researcher June Medford says her lab programmed the plants by taking control of their
Shelley
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Shelley
Self-driving cars use multiple technologies to “see” the road and obstacles along the way.
Hagfish Defense
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Hagfish Defense
The hagfish protects itself by releasing a mass of slime that chokes the predator.
Slime Clothes
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Slime Clothes
The mucin molecule is made up of a protein backbone with side chains of sugar.
Treasures Metals Eiffel Tower
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Treasures Metals Eiffel Tower
An excerpt from "Treasures of the Earth: Metals"
From Mud to Rock
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From Mud to Rock
It’s the tough Manhattan schist rock that’s allowed the city’s skyscrapers to soar.
Mammal Survivors
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Mammal Survivors
This amazing fossil leaf just popped out of this rock.
Dinosaur Fossils
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Dinosaur Fossils
In an empty corner of Utah lies a very special landscape.
Pangea
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Pangea
The rocks here in Zion bear witness to a traumatic phase in our continent’s history.
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