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    "dek": "A new search of the Parkes archive reports previously overlooked extragalactic pulsar candidates in observations collected for other purposes.",
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    "body_text": "Researchers reprocessed archival Parkes radio-telescope observations to search for periodic signals that earlier pipelines had missed. The work reports hidden extragalactic pulsar candidates recovered from data already on disk, showing how improved search methods can extend the scientific life of an observatory archive. Because distant pulsars are faint and propagation effects can distort their signals, candidate validation remains essential. The paper is a discovery report from archival analysis, not a claim that every candidate has already been independently confirmed. Its broader point is methodological: better computation can turn old observations into a new survey without taking another night of telescope time.",
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