Things We Don’t Know
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Is phosphine a biomarker for life on Venus?
6th October, 2020
50 km up in the atmosphere of planet Venus, scientists found phosphine - a possible biomarker.
Walking with wolves
28th September, 2020
It’s hard to tell much about wolves from tracking, but you can learn something.
Prescribed hallucinations
16th September, 2020
Proton pump inhibitors can cause hallucinations, but we don't know why.
Zombies in nature
7th September, 2020
In nature, parasites that control the minds of hosts are common - but are these really zombies? Their hosts aren't dead, and genetics may do the same!
Starting Again
27th August, 2020
What are sleep starts? How many people experience them? And why are they like sleep hiccups?
The speed of time
13th August, 2020
In the fight of the theories - proportional, biological, perceptual - psychologists battle to understand time, and why it seems to change in length.
