A New Math Tool Helps Scientists Weigh the Universe and Invisible Particles
Researchers created a clever way to clean up messy space data, allowing them to measure cosmic secrets like never before.
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Scientists have spent decades trying to map the large-scale structure of the universe using statistics. This new work is a major step forward from previous methods that struggled with the complex, nonlinear ways gravity gathers matter together. Future researchers will likely apply this transform to data from current and upcoming galaxy surveys to see if it reveals new secrets about our universe.
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