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In 1994, a park ranger abseiling into a sandstone gorge west of Sydney found a stand of trees with waxy, fern-like foliage that turned out to be Wollemi pines, a genus known only from 90-million-year-old fossils and presumed extinct since the age of dinosaurs
In 1928, Alexander Fleming came back from a two-week holiday to find a stray mould contaminating a stack of Staphylococcus plates in his St Mary's lab, and the clear ring of dead bacteria around the fungus became the accidental start of the antibiotic era
Why does draining a waterlogged carbon-rich soil for oil palm or pasture release more greenhouse gas per hectare than clearing the rainforest that grew on top of it?
In 1953, Rosalind Franklin's X-ray image labelled Photo 51 sat in a drawer at King's College London when Maurice Wilkins showed it to James Watson without her knowledge, and the dark diffraction cross at its centre gave away DNA's helical shape before she could publish her own analysis
