Outdoor Cats
A lot of the ocelots remaining in this U.S. state prowl around in the shrublands of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
What is Texas?
Reinforced concrete & a device called a tuned mass damper protect the tower called this capital of Taiwan 101 from serious rattles.
What is Taipei?
When you're on a plane, it's the 4-letter opposing force of thrust.
What is drag?
Spinal cord stimulators are electrodes that are surgically implanted between the spinal cord & these, of which there are 33.
What are vertebrae?
Superman might know that this element used in fluorescent lights is No. 36 on the periodic table.
What is krypton?
The long & flexible spine of this big cat acts like a coiled spring, allowing it to reach speeds up to 70 miles per hour.
What are cheetahs?
Bath's law says the largest of these tremors after the main rattle will typically be 1.2 magnitude units smaller.
What is an aftershock?
This one of the simple machines, an adaptation of the inclined plane, can be used to split a log.
What is a wedge?
This type of implant that improves hearing is named for a tube in the ear that's shaped like a snail shell.
What is a cochlear implant?
Not a surprise based on their names, glowworms & fireflies exhibit this, a chemical reaction that produces light.
What is bioluminescence?
They're cats of the southeastern U.S. in the genus Puma; they're also the 2024 Stanley Cup champions.
What are panthers?
Also called the Circum-Pacific Belt, it's home to about 90% of the world's earthquakes.
What is the Ring of Fire?
It's the type of acceleration of a body traveling in a circular motion; the same-named "force" is directed towards the circle's cente.
What is centripetal?
Neuralink aims to link machines & minds: first for injuries like this loss of blood in the brain, then to alter humanity.
What is a stroke?
The pencil appears to bend due to this property of physics as light waves move from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
The documentary "The Velvet Queen" follows adventurers on the lookout for this rare cat in the Tibetan highlands.
What is a snow leopard?
The shifting plates that cause earthquakes make up this "sphere" that "rocks" over the weak & ductile asthenosphere.
What is the lithosphere?
Quarks are grouped in 3 pairs: up & down, top & bottom & let's call them this "rizzy" & "odd" pair.
What are strange and charm?
A cardiac resynchronization therapy device is also known as a biventricular one of these, which stimulates the heart.
What is a pacemaker?
Auroras happen as atoms react with electrons & protons brought to the upper atmosphere by this flux of particles from our sun.
What is the solar wind?
The tufts on the tip of the ears of this small African cat are thought to help make it easier for it to hear its prey.
What is a caracal?
In the U.S. earthquakes are now measured using a scale of seismic intensity named for this Italian.
What is Mercalli?
A CERN document calls it a material "composed of electrically neutral particles that can... flow without friction".
What is a superfluid?
Insulin pumps are small electronic devices that mimic the way this organ works in the body.
What is the pancreas?
Here's a city created by this process that uses lasers to make everything look futuristic.
What is holography?