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20 WEIRDEST SCIENCE MYSTERIES

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Issue 195

From dark matter to deep-sea crabs, science still can't fully explain these strange quirks of nature

- SCOTT DUTFIELD

20 WEIRDEST SCIENCE MYSTERIES

STRANGE RADIO BURSTS FROM DEEP SPACE

image1 Since 2007, scientists have been plagued by cosmic signals called fast radio bursts (FRBs). In just onethousandth of a second, bursts of radio waves radiate from a source. These then travel through space and are picked up on Earth. FRB 20220610A, detected in 2022, travelled around 8 billion light years before it reached our planet. The first FRB was detected in 2001 by the Parkes Observatory in Australia, emanating from a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Small Magellanic Cloud. However, researchers didn’t discover the burst until 2007 while looking through archival data. Since then, around 1,000 have been detected, though their origins remain unknown. Many theories have emerged to answer the mystery behind the bursts, including energetic neutron stars, black holes or highly magnetised stars. Most FRB signals are also non-repeating, curbing scientists’ efforts to pinpoint their sources.

imageWHERE DOES CONSCIOUSNESS COME FROM?

2 We all know that who we are comes from our brains, but scientists are still scratching their heads when it comes to

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UNCANNY'S DANNY ROBINS

The creator and host of the BBC's Uncanny series tells us about his most chilling experiences while researching the show, and writing a ghost book for children

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4 mins

Issue 208

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HOW FEATHERS GROW

A bird's proteinaceous plumage comes from the same source as our hair

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1 mins

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New EV battery technology could power 500-mile road trips on a 12-minute charge

Scientists have used a neat chemistry trick to tackle a major challenge facing future batteries.

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2 mins

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HOW AIR PURIFIERS WORK

These filtration devices clean a room's air of particles that can make a person sick

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1 min

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Chinese scientists hunt for alien radio signals in a 'potentially habitable' star system

TRAPPIST-1 is a red dwarf star located about 40 light years away that hosts seven Earth-sized rocky planets, with at least three orbiting in the habitable zone where liquid water could exist.

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2 mins

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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE?

Our bodies are vessels for life, but in death they undergo a cascade of chemical and biological changes

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3 mins

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WHY ARE KEYBOARDS QWERTY?

There's a reason why this seemingly random arrangement of letters is widely used on keyboard layouts

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1 min

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A 'quasi-moon' discovered in Earth orbit may have been hiding for decades

A new paper describes a possible 'quasi-moon' of Earth, an interloping asteroid that may have been following our planet around for decades, undetected.

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1 mins

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WHAT'S AN ANTI-DRONE GUN?

How these devices intercept and disable unmanned aerial vehicles

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1 mins

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Dozens of mysterious blobs discovered inside Mars may be 'failed planets'

Giant impact structures, including the potential remains of ancient ‘protoplanets’, may be lurking deep beneath the surface of Mars.

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2 mins

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