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A Mars orbiter once caught a dust devil roughly 12 miles tall — about the length of Manhattan — twisting across the Red Planet
In 1665, Robert Hooke sliced a paper-thin sliver of cork, held it under a compound microscope of his own design, and saw rows of tiny empty compartments that reminded him of monks' quarters, giving biology the word 'cell' 174 years before anyone worked out what was actually inside one
Why does removing rats and stoats from a scatter of small offshore islands bring back flightless parrots and ground-nesting seabirds that had not bred on the mainland for over a century?
How did a treeless volcanic island in the North Atlantic, stripped of its birch forests by Viking axes over a thousand years ago, begin clawing woodland back onto slopes of black ash and wind?
