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"Every four years, we all get a reminder about why still photography is an urgently important art form that must be preserved at any cost: the high-effort Olympic figure skater face, which is always best enjoyed by clicking around the Getty Images site. You, the person reading this, are a slob who cannot do what these athletes are doing or even conceive of how they use their feeble, breakable human bodies to do it. Just as inconceivable is the idea of doing this in front of an audience, a table of judges, and an army of photographers capturing your grace or clumsiness, success or failure, and everything beautiful or — as the case may be — hideous about your face and body engaged in this famously most competitive of competitive sports."

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Chinese robots can now run up walls

"While humanoid robots have a long way to go to prove useful in our day-to-day lives, they've at least made leaps and bounds in showing off their agility on stage. Case in point, the televised Spring Festival Gala put on by the state-run China Media Group last weekend featured an impressive synchronized martial arts routine. Organizers were even confident enough to put the well-being of children on the line, having young performers spar with a small army of nunchuck- and spear-wielding Unitree G1 robots."

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Rare great white spotting shows 'ghost' species still alive

"A rare great white shark was incidentally caught by local fishermen off the coast of Spain, revealing that the species has maintained a continued presence in the waters. Fishermen off the coast of the eastern peninsula in the Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone caught the juvenile great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias). It measured 210cm and weighed between 80 and 90 kg. The exceptional sighting prompted researchers to review past records, spanning over 160 years. … But this sighting confirms that the species hasn't disappeared from the Mediterranean entirely."

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The biophysical world inside a jam-packed cell

"It's a familiar image, reprinted in countless biology textbooks: an illustration of a typical cell, halved like a grapefruit to reveal its innards. Strands of endoplasmic reticulum encircle a nucleus that floats in the center like a raft. RNA molecules wait patiently at ribosomes to deliver recipes for making proteins. A few vacuoles and Golgi bodies bob about. A mostly deserted cytosol offers a blank backdrop. These are scenes of a calm, rarefied order, as if a cell were a tidy factory with workers individually going about their focused tasks. Scrub that picture from your mind right now: Cells are anything but calm or rarefied. If you were trapped inside a cell, you would feel like a dancer in a thronged nightclub, constantly jostled by neighbors."

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