It is with great joy that we announced the presence of portals. Portals may be summoned from extra dimensions, and experimented on. Requiring only energy to find, they are a natural part of our universe which we cannot create.
It is a fountain of youth. It is a wonderwall. The portal may be passed through by humans or objects, or in some cases, lizard people. We haven't found many of those portals, because lizard people prefer to travel through space. It should be noted that a portal from which lizard people come is only occupied by lizard people, not created or sustained by them.
A portal is a fluke in the universe, or a kink in space-time. They exist like invisible waterfalls or canyons in the terra firma of our 3-dimensional lives. Humans pass through portals all the time, often leading to happiness, luck,or depression. Some portals lead the mind into other dimensions, and exist at the edges of the physical representation of those portals. These are consumed by humans in the form of drugs.
Most portals of interest to the scientist are travel portals. Enormous kinks of energy deposits may teleport or displace an object to a place very far indeed away from earth.