Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mysterious blasts of radio waves from across the universe called fast radio bursts help astronomers catalog matter. ESO/M.

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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Chris Impey, University of Arizona (THE CONVERSATION) If you look across space with a ...