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You can't see, feel, hear, taste or smell them, but tiny particles from space are constantly raining down on us.

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Dark energy may be the most mysterious substance ever proposed, but many scientists are certain it exists. Why?

Experiments at China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak have confirmed the existence of "a density-free region" ...