The goal of the experiment is to gain insight into distant cosmic events by analyzing signals that reach the Earth. Rather than reflecting off the ice, the signals—a form of radio waves—appeared to be coming from below the horizon, an orientation that cannot be explained by the current understanding of particle physics and may hint at new types of particles or interactions previously unknown to science, the team said.
The researchers published their results in the journal Physical Review Letters.
“The radio waves that we detected were at really steep angles, like 30 degrees below the surface of the ice,” said Stephanie Wissel, associate professor of physics, astronomy and astrophysics who worked on the ANITA team searching for signals from elusive particles called neutrinos.
Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica
Submitted 4 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to science@mander.xyz
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-strange-radio-pulses-ice-antarctica.html
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acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
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Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No!!! Let the dead gods slumber!!!
dg2445@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Meh. It’s 2025. Wakey-wakey li’l Old Ones.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
roserose56@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Interesting thanks!!
Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Kwyjibo1@lemmy.myserv.one 4 weeks ago
Nope! I’ve seen that movie. Before you know it they pull up a block of ice with some alien in it and Kurt Russell is blasting things with a flame thrower.