Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Discovery.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about an experiment that may have accidentally found dark energy, the time a prehistoric

fish came back from the dead, and four magic words that could double your chances of

getting what you want. Let's satisfy some curiosity.

An experiment beneath Italy's Apennine Mountains is hoping to find the exotic substance known

as dark matter.

It's an impressive goal. But as it turns out, nature might have done us one better.

In a recent analysis, scientists might have found something even weirder.

Dark Energy. For a refresher, since the even we'reier, dark energy.

For a refresher, since the 1920s, scientists have noticed something strange about the universe.

Gravitational movements of galaxies were different from what they had expected from Einstein's theory of relativity.

There must be extra mass out there that we can't see. They called it dark matter.

Then later in 1998 scientists realized that there was another

strange process going on. Some kind of force that was pushing galaxies away

from one another at an accelerating pace. They call that dark energy.

These strange substances make up a huge part of the universe. Dark energy makes up

68% of the universe and dark matter 25%. The last 5% is all that

regular matter that makes up our bodies, our planet, our solar system, all the stuff we currently know and

understand. So dark matter and dark energy are extremely common in the

universe. We just haven't been able to find any of it. Which brings us to that experiment in

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