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September 2026

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Flora And Fauna

In 1994, a bushwalker abseiling into a sandstone gorge 150 kilometres from Sydney found a stand of trees with knobbly bark and fern-like leaves that turned out to be Wollemi pines, a species known from fossils dating back about 90 million years and presumed extinct for roughly two million years

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 9, 2026

The Tunguska object vaporised almost entirely in the airburst, so Leonid Kulik's 1920s and 1930s expeditions mapped the event not from a crater but from the radial pattern of felled and scorched trees stretching hundreds of square kilometres from the epicentre

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 7, 2026

Technology News

Microsoft encodes data as hundreds of layers of laser-etched voxels inside 2mm-thick borosilicate glass, using machine learning models to read it back

By Space Travel Editorial Team · Sep 4, 2026