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During the Cold War, the British Military planned to deploy a series of nuclear landmines to protect them from the Soviets in the event of a retreat from Germany. Problem was, the mines tended to freeze up in the winter, rendering them useless. The solution? Chickens. Lots of chickens.
 
There's lots of stuff underwater that we humans have done that are bad news for fish. Be it turbines or massive, horrifying oil spills, we really make it hard for fish to live normal fishy lives. That's why researchers at NYU-Poly's Dynamical Systems Laboratory have created this robot fish.
 
By using nonoptical scanning probe microscopes, scientists are able to reveal the going-ons inside humans and animals with stunning clarity. Take the above set of donut-shaped blood cells — which have been treated with an antibiotic called phyllomelittin taken...

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