00:00In a surprising discovery, scientists in Antarctica have detected unusual radio signals coming from beneath the ice.
00:06The signals were found during a project using the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna, ANITA,
00:13which uses balloon-based instruments to study high-energy cosmic events by observing radio waves in the atmosphere.
00:20The research took place in Antarctica due to its low interference from background signals.
00:24But instead of detecting expected signals from outer space, the team picked up strange radio waves emerging from deep below the ice at steep angles,
00:34something that shouldn't be possible.
00:36Dr. Stephanie Whistle, a physicist from Penn State involved in the project,
00:41explained that these waves appeared to travel through thousands of kilometers of solid rock, which should have blocked them.
00:47The team initially thought they were detecting neutrinos, tiny particles that rarely interact with matter
00:53and can travel across the universe, but their findings didn't match up with other experiments.
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