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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00049-5
Additional reporting by Elizabeth Gibney.
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Correction 07 January 2019: The original version of the story misstated the frequency of the lowest-frequence fast radio burst known as millihertz instead of megahertz.
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