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Marie Curie remains the only person ever to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, taking physics in 1903 and chemistry in 1911, a double no scientist has repeated in the century since despite Bardeen, Sanger, Sharpless and Pauling each collecting a second prize of their own
In 1856, an American scientist named Eunice Newton Foote filled glass cylinders with carbon dioxide, set them in sunlight, and measured the temperature climbing faster than in cylinders of ordinary air, publishing the first known experimental evidence of the greenhouse effect three years before John Tyndall received credit for the same discovery.
A single wind turbine blade on the latest offshore machines sweeps an area larger than the London Eye with every rotation, and just one of these turbines can power roughly 20,000 European homes for a full year
The Three Gorges Dam holds back roughly 39 cubic kilometres of water on the Yangtze, and NASA calculated that shifting that much mass so far above sea level lengthened Earth's day by 0.06 microseconds by nudging the planet's moment of inertia
