I tend to read science articles with an SF slant, predicting the next chapter if it were fiction. For example:

Case Researchers Discover Methods To Find 'Needles In Haystack' In Data

"A Case Western Reserve University research team from physics and statistics has recently created innovative statistical techniques that improve the chances of detecting a signal in large data sets. The new techniques can not only search for the "needle in the haystack" in particle physics, but also have applications in discovering a new galaxy, monitoring transactions for fraud and security risk, identifying the carrier of a virulent disease among millions of people or detecting cancerous tissues in a mammogram."

Case faculty members Ramani Pilla and Catherine Loader from statistics and Cyrus Taylor from physics report their findings in the article, 'A New Technique for Finding Needles in Haystacks: A Geometric Approach to Distinguishing between a New Source and Random Fluctuations,' December 2, in the journal, Physical Review Letters...."

The protagonist stumbles on what he first thinks is the signature of a hacker in the database of a particle accelerator, and the algorithm then suggests to him that a signal is actually being broadcast from an alternate reality in the multiverse...