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In June, a team of researchers supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation announced that they found the first evidence of the gravitational wave background that pervades the universe.
From visible starlight to radio waves, the Milky Way galaxy has long been observed through the various frequencies of electromagnetic radiation it emits.
It could be a scene from a Hollywood horror movie: NSF-funded researchers found a new species of living creatures — described as pale, eyeless and with nearly 500 legs — thriving in the soil under Los…