A toaster-sized machine just proved humanity can manufacture air on Mars—a crucial step toward bringing astronauts back home from the red planet.
Singapore, an island with no rivers and almost no groundwater, now meets roughly 40 percent of its water demand with treated sewage — piped through a 48-kilometre tunnel to a plant that sinks 25 storeys underground and processes 900 million litres a day.
On October 24, 1946, a 35mm DeVry cine camera bolted into a captured V-2 rocket climbed 65 miles above the New Mexico desert and returned the first photograph of Earth from beyond the atmosphere. The rocket shattered on impact. The steel-jacketed film cassette did not.
South Korea's hills, stripped almost bare by war and decades of fuelwood cutting, recovered to roughly two-thirds forest cover within 40 years through a state-run planting programme that paid rural households in grain and cash for surviving seedlings.
In 1994, ranger David Noble abseiled into a Wollemi canyon and found trees matching 90-million-year-old fossils. Roughly 90 wild Wollemi pines remain — the last of a lineage older than flowering plants.
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