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Friedrich Miescher spent the winter of 1869 rinsing pus off surgical bandages collected from a Tübingen clinic to isolate what he called nuclein, a phosphorus-rich substance from white blood cell nuclei that the world would take another 75 years to recognise as DNA
What happened when a Great Plains dust storm in 1935 blackened the sky over Washington DC on the very day a soil scientist was testifying to Congress about erosion?
In July 1962, a missing overbar in Mariner 1’s guidance equation helped send the Venus probe off course 293 seconds after launch, forcing range safety to destroy NASA’s $18.5 million mission
Why does roughly 27 million tonnes of desert dust cross an ocean each year to fertilise a rainforest on the other side of the planet?
