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Scientists have discovered mysterious radio signals emerging from deep beneath Antarctica's ice.
The strange radio pulses were detected by the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), an array of instruments designed to detect elusive particles called neutrinos.
Rather than detecting these cosmic particles, the researchers were baffled to find signals emerging from the ice at seemingly impossible angles.
Worryingly, they have no idea what could be causing them.
In a paper, published in Physical Review Letters, an international team of researchers explained that these findings cannot be explained by the current understanding of particle physics.
This might mean there are entirely new forms of particles and interactions at play or that these unusual signals are the product of mysterious dark matter.
Dr Stephanie Wissel, an astrophysicist from The Pennsylvania State University who worked on the ANITA team, says: 'The radio waves that we detected were at really steep angles, like 30 degrees below the surface of the ice.
'It's an interesting problem because we still don't actually have an explanation for what those anomalies are.'