"It's been here since the beginning alongside gravity and magnetism." A long-sought invisible force wrapped around Earth has been detected more than …
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Scientists Detect a New Fundamental Force Shaping Earth's Atmosphere
A long-sought invisible force wrapped around Earth has been detected more than half a century after it was first hypothesized.
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