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In 2024, researchers transformed readings of an epic upheaval of Earth’s magnetic field flipping 41,000 years ago into an eerie, auditory experience. Now a team containing some of those same scientists has sonified an even earlier flip, from epochs ago. The resulting cacophony is an unnerving translation of geological data on the Matuyama-Brunhes reversal, a switching of the planet’s magnetic …

It’s the stuff of nightmares. Fully conscious, aware of everything and everyone yet unable to move, communicate, or even breathe unassisted. Some call it ‘locked in syndrome.’ Mallory Wilkerson refers to it as a ‘waking coma’, and it was her horrifying reality for three agonizing months back in the fall of 2024. That was when, within the space of 24 …