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How did a volcanic island near the Arctic Circle, stripped of most of its birch woodland over a thousand years, begin growing forest again across badly eroded ground?
How does a spacecraft launched in 1977 keep transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on less electrical power than a single hallway bulb, and why does its signal now take more than 22 hours to reach Earth?
How did an island of fewer than 2,000 people place 317,500 square kilometres of ocean under management and ask sponsors to fund protection one square kilometre at a time?
In December 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann found barium in a uranium sample and wrote a bewildered letter to Lise Meitner, who worked out the physics on a snowy walk in Sweden and gave the process a name borrowed from biology: fission
