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281Columbia engineers built a machine that deposited seven edible ingredients and selectively cooked the result with a blue laser.
282In a three-month study, pet parrots learned to ring a bell when they wanted a video call, then tap a photo to choose another bird.
283Researchers documented two sacoglossan sea-slug species shedding nearly the entire body behind the head—including the heart—and surviving.
284At Lake Maracaibo in northwestern Venezuela, night often arrives with its own electrical weather.
286In 2018, a family found a bottle partly exposed in a dune near Wedge Island, Western Australia.
287Carnegie Mellon researchers made flat pasta from ordinary semolina flour and water, then pressed carefully designed grooves into it.
288Researchers at Ben-Gurion University put a fish tank on a wheeled platform and mounted a camera above it.
289Section 32 of the United Kingdom's Salmon Act 1986 really is headed “Handling salmon in suspicious circumstances.” It has become a perfect specimen of absurd-law trivia, usually retold as…
290Sometime in the second half of the 1500s, a maker packed an iron clockwork into a wooden friar scarcely 16 inches tall.
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