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Jun 17 2025SCIENCE

Unveiling the Cosmic Fog: How Mysterious Signals Reveal Hidden Matter

The universe is mostly made up of dark matter and dark energy. These components are invisible but shape the cosmos and speed up its expansion. The rest is ordinary matter, found in protons and neutrons. This ordinary matter is hard to spot because it's spread out like fog between galaxies. Scientists have been trying to find this missing matter for decades. It's like...

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Jun 16 2025SCIENCE

The Cosmic Gas Mystery Unraveled

The universe is full of surprises, and one of its biggest puzzles has finally been cracked. For a long time, scientists have known that ordinary matter, the stuff we can see and touch, makes up only a small part of the universe. But where is the rest of it? This question has baffled astronomers for decades. Now, a breakthrough has been made. A group of astronomers h...

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Apr 11 2025SCIENCE

Unraveling the Mysteries of Fast Radio Bursts

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are incredibly brief flashes of radio waves. They come from far beyond our galaxy. Their origins remain a mystery. Scientists have made significant strides in detecting these bursts. Hundreds of new bursts have been found. Some of them repeat. This has opened up new ways to study the universe. Interferometry is a technique that combine...

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