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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
Microsoft encodes data as hundreds of layers of laser-etched voxels inside 2mm-thick borosilicate glass, using machine learning models to read it back
A funnel of pitch cut open in 1930 has produced only nine drops in 96 years, and scientists still expect the next one sometime in the 2020s
A parasitic crustacean called Cymothoa exigua enters a fish through the gills, causes most of its tongue to degenerate, and then attaches itself to the remaining stump, where it may serve as a mechanical replacement
