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Which bird migrates the longest distance?

In terms of the range of migrations, the Arctic tern is the leader among birds, annually covering a distance of up to 36 thousand kilometers - from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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What special state of matter was found in the chicken eye?

There is a special state of matter called "disordered superhomogeneity", in which the substance has the properties of a crystal and a liquid at the same time. It was first discovered by physicists in liquid helium and simple plasmas, but has recently been encountered by biologists while studying the chicken eye. Like other diurnal birds, chickens have five types of photoreceptors: red, blue, green, violet, and responsible for the perception of light. All of them are located on the retina in one layer at first glance randomly, however, a detailed study of the patterns revealed that around each cone there is a so-called forbidden zone, in which the appearance of other cones of the same type is excluded. As a result, the system cannot take a single ordered form, but tends to be as homogeneous as possible.

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