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I've never heard of Muon tomography till today but damn it's really cool, and I'm amazed it's both been around for so long (50s) and has such wide ranging applications:

Muon tomography or muography is a technique that uses cosmic ray muons to generate three-dimensional images of volumes using information contained in the Coulomb scattering of the muons. Since muons are much more deeply penetrating than X-rays, muon tomography can be used to image through much thicker material than x-ray based tomography such as CT scanning. The muon flux at the Earth's surface is such that a single muon passes through an area the size of a human hand per second.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon_tomography

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