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How does reintroducing a dam-building rodent to a drought-prone valley raise the water table, cool the stream, and store more carbon in the floodplain than the surrounding forest?
How did an East African community, told to fence wildlife out for conservation, instead grant grazing rights across shared rangelands and see lion, elephant and giraffe numbers climb alongside their cattle herds?
How did a London physician stop a cholera outbreak that killed more than 500 people in ten days by mapping deaths on a Soho street grid and removing the handle from a single water pump in 1854?
In 1869, a Swiss physician named Friedrich Miescher isolated a strange phosphorus-rich substance from the pus-soaked bandages of wounded soldiers at a Tübingen clinic, called it 'nuclein', and unknowingly became the first person to hold purified DNA in his hands, 84 years before Watson and Crick built their model
