Artificial intelligence helps track down mysterious cosmic radio bursts: Machine learning algorithm also helps search for new kinds of signals from extraterrestrial intelligence

Fast radio bursts are powerful blasts of energy from across the cosmos caused by unknown events, perhaps emissions from a collapsed and highly magnetized neutron star. One FRB source has attracted attention because it repeats. Researchers recorded radio data from this source and scraped it with a new machine learning algorithm that uncovered 72 new bursts undetected by normal techniques.