Things We Don't Know

Explaining the mysteries of science, in simple language.

Friday, 26 June 2020

Baby Tastes (Things We Don’t Know about Pregnancy Series #22)

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Do your baby’s tastes depend on what you ate when they were in the womb? Apparently, you can taste foods in amniotic fluid and breast mil...
Sunday, 21 June 2020

Coronavirus 101

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It’s devastating us now. But where did it come from, where is is going, and what is it anyway? The disease COVID-19 , caused by the virus...
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Sunday, 14 June 2020

Superfetation (Things We Don’t Know about Pregnancy Series #21)

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As one literature report begins, “Here we review the scant and at times ancient literature on this poorly understood topic.” [1] Euro...
Friday, 5 June 2020

Gender and Pain

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Have you ever considered how your identity could influence how you feel pain? How your pain is perceived by others? Or how much of your p...
Saturday, 30 May 2020

Cryptic Pregnancies (Things We Don’t Know about Pregnancy Series #20)

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Some pregnancies are planned, and some pregnancies are unplanned, but few pregnancies go unnoticed. Not so cryptic (or “stealth”) pregnanci...
Thursday, 21 May 2020

Categorising Things is “Evil”

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We label things every day: that man is tall, this book a thriller, leaves are green. How tall? How thrilling? What shade of green? We take ...
Monday, 11 May 2020

The Causes of SIDS (Things We Don’t Know about Pregnancy Series #19)

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What causes SIDS , and why mention it with pregnancy? Sudden Unexplained Infant Deaths (SUIDs) of infants under a year old occur unpred...
Tuesday, 28 April 2020

Depression During and After Pregnancy (Things We Don’t Know about Pregnancy Series #18)

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Postnatal depression is thought to occur in ~1 in 10 mothers, making it a common form of mental illness. The onset and peak of the illness...
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