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Using science to explore a 60-year-old Russian mystery – EurekAlert
Researchers from EPFL and ETH Zurich have conducted an original scientific study that puts forth a plausible explanation for the mysterious 1959 death of nine hikers…

IMAGE: Configuration of the Dyatlov group’s tent installed on a flat surface after making a cut in the slope below a small shoulder.
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Credit: Gaume/Puzrin
In early October 2019, when an unknown caller rang EPFL professor Johan Gaume’s cell phone, he could hardly have imagined that he was about to confront one of the greatest mysteries in Soviet history. At the other end of the line, a journalist from The New York Times asked for his expert insight into a tragedy that had occurred 60 years…
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