Things We Don't Know

Explaining the mysteries of science, in simple language.

Thursday, 31 March 2022

The plant-eating shark

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Sharks are normally carnivorous, but there appears to be one that bucks the trend. The bonnethead. The bonnethead shark eats seagrass, ...
Thursday, 17 March 2022

Co-sleeping: time to talk

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Monkey baby-carrying. User 825545 via Pixabay . Co-sleeping has been demonised by SIDS networks because evidence suggests that it correlates...
Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Déjà vu

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I’m thinking of anaglyphs: those blue-green offset images: you put the glasses on, your brain brings the colours together, and suddenly you ...
Friday, 18 February 2022

Why do Narwhals have tusks?

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Narwhals, the unicorns of the sea, have large tusks (which are actually large canine teeth) protruding from their foreheads. Each tusk holds...
Friday, 4 February 2022

Green ammonia

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Ammonia may be a chemical you don't think about very much – but, perhaps, you should... 75-90% of all the ammonia made is used to make ...
Thursday, 13 January 2022

The cannibal in the ocean

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I’ve just learnt about a new shark – Orthacanthus – and maybe it’s Latin name will give you a clue as to why I hadn’t heard of it before: i...
Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Wielding (quantum) fields!

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Quantum field theory takes an infinite number of field configurations and add them up with the proper weighting to come to a single conclu...
Friday, 3 December 2021

What has Juno found on Jupiter? Part II – It’s magnetic

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Built with a 20 radius and designed to spin, Juno is made to measure the magnetic field of Jupiter. Thanks to Juno, we now know that the pla...
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