{"content":"Costa Rica, a country of roughly 51,100 square kilometres wedged between Nicaragua and Panama, has gone from losing forest faster than almost anywhere on Earth in the 1980s to having
On 1 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander touched down on Venus and kept transmitting for 127 minutes from a place hot enough to melt lead, under pressure that would crush a submarine. Here is how a titanium sphere packed with phase-change salt outlived its own design lifetime by a factor of four.
On October 24, 1946, a 35mm cine camera bolted into a captured V-2 rocket at White Sands climbed 65 miles above New Mexico and returned the first photograph of Earth taken from above the atmosphere — grainy, tumbled, and unmistakably curved.
In 2007, Iñupiat whalers off Alaska recovered a bowhead whale carrying the tip of a bomb lance manufactured in New Bedford between 1879 and 1885 — an accidental archive of an animal that had survived Victorian whaling and swum the Arctic for well over a century.
In May 1952, Rosalind Franklin and Raymond Gosling exposed a single hydrated DNA fibre to an X-ray beam for 62 hours in a basement at King's College London. The resulting Photo 51 showed the helix so clearly that its geometry could be read straight off the plate — months before Watson and Crick built their model.
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