Yuri Gagarin's single 90-minute orbit on 12 April 1961 opened a ledger that reached 600 humans by November 2021 — more than twenty times the count of people who have ever reached the deepest point of the ocean.
The CROZEX cruise measured carbon sinking three kilometres beneath the sub-Antarctic Southern Ocean and found that naturally iron-fertilised waters exported roughly two to three times more carbon than adjacent iron-starved patches — a natural experiment that anchors modern debates over ocean iron fertilisation.
Marie Curie is still the only person ever awarded Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911 — a feat unmatched despite four other scientists collecting second prizes of their own since.
In 1856, Eunice Newton Foote proved that carbon dioxide traps heat using two glass cylinders and a thermometer — the first known experimental demonstration of the greenhouse effect, published three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.
A single blade on the newest generation of offshore wind turbines is longer than a football pitch, and its rotor sweeps a circle larger than the London Eye. One machine can power close to 20,000 European homes for a year — and the industry is already reaching for 25-megawatt giants.
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