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How does a single family of dam-building rodents, reintroduced to a drought-cracked valley, raise the water table by close to a metre and store more carbon in the resulting wetland than an equivalent area of forest?
The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead must correct their atomic clocks by 38 microseconds per day, because Einstein's relativity predicts time itself runs faster up there where Earth's gravity is weaker
In 1961, a Soviet test over Novaya Zemlya detonated a 50-megaton hydrogen bomb called Tsar Bomba whose mushroom cloud reached 64 kilometres into the sky and whose flash was visible from roughly 1,000 kilometres away, still the largest explosion humans have ever produced
A tiny jellyfish called Turritopsis dohrnii can revert its adult cells back to a juvenile polyp when injured or starving, effectively restarting its life cycle and making it one of the only known animals with no fixed lifespan
