Microsoft's Project Silica has written 4.8 terabytes of data into a 2mm-thick sheet of borosilicate glass using femtosecond lasers, encoding it as 301 layers of 3D voxels that machine learning models read back — and accelerated ageing tests suggest the data will still be intact in 10,000 years.
Cymothoa exigua slips through a fish's gills, drains the blood vessels feeding the tongue until the organ withers away, and then hooks itself into the empty stump — the only known animal that functionally replaces a host organ.
Beneath the mud lies a carbon bomb that makes rainforest destruction look modest by comparison.
Pando has been regrowing itself from the same root system for somewhere between 16,000 and 80,000 years. That range is not a rounding error, and researchers still cannot narrow it.
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