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Eyetracker

Can somebody else identify a dancer’s mood merely by looking at their dance moves?
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White European mole

This is a rare European mole with white fur.
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‘Screw-barrel’ microscope

The very first microscopes were actually closer to a type of fancy magnifying glasses. They only had one lens and were only able to magnify an object to a few d...
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Doubt

Our senses are only able to capture a small percentage of the world around us. Taking that incomplete information as a starting point, our brain relies on a ser...
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Exoskelet Wall-X

Wall-X assists foot push-off, thus making walking about 12% easier.
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Hydrostatic balance

This balance, which was found in Joseph Plateau’s Cabinet de Physique demonstrates how Archimedes’ principle works.
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Long-spine porcupinefish

Porcupinefish can make themselves swell up by sucking in water. That makes them more difficult to grab and swallow.
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Hat mould “conformateur”

Psychologists and neuroscientists are still searching for a link between the activity in certain areas of the brain and carrying out specific tasks.
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Imagination

Science can be an extremely precise discipline: you need to measure everything as accurately as possible, to meticulously note things down, and, if required, to...
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Metaphase in meiosis

This is a model of metaphase in meiosis, i.e. cell division in reproductive cells.
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