Gravitational waves may be one of the biggest scientific discoveries in recent years, but pinpointing their sources isn't easy. To help with this, NASA is turning to a surprising source – lobsters. The space agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland is studying the tasty crustacean's eye as a model for new space-based instrument designed to seek out the cosmic events that produce the enigmatic phenomena.
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