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An Artificial Retina aiming to restore sight for people with damaged retinas. This medical implant is suitable for people who have damaged photoreceptors (cones and rods) but otherwise a functioning retina, as is the cas…

Robotics contest will build a biomimetic robot based on winning entry More and more, we're finding that by copying nature, we can develop technologies that are capable of performing previously impossible functions. A new…

An amazing little Fruit Fly of the Family Tephritidae with incredibly realistic ants on it´s wings. They look as though they are biting onto the abdomen of the fly. This fly was only about 3 mm long, but even from a dist…

There are predators in nature that do not attack when they are looked into the eyes. Therefore, some African tribes wear masks backwards to keep predators away. It looks creepy, yes. But the main thing is that it works.…

Here is a hungry rotifer attacking and eating another protozoan unicellular organism. Look how fast the first attack was. If anything, the video was filmed in real time, with a hundred times magnification. @science

The shell of a turtle is more than just a cover, it’s a vital part of the animal’s skeleton that protects its organs. And although pet turtles are usually safe from the dangers that might crack it, wild ones aren’t so lu…

A steel razor blade can get dull surprisingly quickly when cutting something as soft as hair, and now researchers have gotten their first up-close look at how a close shave actually damages an everyday disposable razor.…

Scientists finding a new geometric shape that explains and shows how our skin cells pack and fit together. As the epithelium of our skin grows and curves, the cells must adjust and take on new shapes to pack using as lit…

Common fact: The city cannot be developed without a water supply system. And, probably, New York would not have been New York, if at the beginning of the 19th century it had not started using tree trunks as a water pipe.…

The portrait of George Washington on the one dollar bill is taken from the unfinished “Portrait from the Ateneum”. In this painting, Washington is 65 years old. It can be seen that the artist did not finish the portrait,…

In ancient China, pillows were made from different materials. They took wood, bamboo and even jade, bronze and porcelain. It was believed that a jade pillow makes a person smarter. Hard pillows were preferred precisely b…

Giraffes are just as astonishing on the inside as they are to look at. Standing up to 19 feet tall, they require enormously high blood pressure to pump blood up to the head, yet they suffer few, if any, of the consequenc…

That’s how an ancient Egyptian door lock works. Not so different from a modern one, right? Pretty simple, but at the same time very thoughtful. The general principle has not changed since that time. And I wonder if there…

This is what the ancient Greek stadium looks like before and after the excavations. Thousands of people filled this stadium thousands of times over the centuries, and then it all just stopped and overgrown. You won’t eve…

These tiny orange glass balls are moon sand. Yes, sand from the moon magnified 340 times looks exactly like this. The Apollo 17 astronauts collected this "orange soil" on the rim of Shorty Crater in the Taurus-Littrow Va…