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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
Astronauts returning from six-month ISS missions come home measurably taller, gaining up to 5 centimetres as spinal discs decompress in microgravity, and the extra height disappears within days once gravity crushes the vertebrae back into place
How did a Chinese plateau the size of France cut the yellow silt flowing into its downstream river from 1.6 billion tonnes a year to 300 million?
