Articles for tag: natural phenomena, strange science facts, unexplained phenomena, Weird Science

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10 Strange Scientific Phenomena That Still Have No Explanation

Suhail Ahmed

Every few months, a new paper or mission promises to crack one of science’s enduring riddles, and yet the mysteries keep slipping through our fingers. That tension – between confident prediction and stubborn reality – is where discovery lives. Today’s instruments can track atoms, catch starlight bent by gravity, and listen for whispers from the ...

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Meet the Blob That Has No Brain But Solves Mazes

Suhail Ahmed

It looks like a smear of egg yolk on agar, slow and indecisive – until you give it a problem and watch it go to work. The slime mold Physarum polycephalum doesn’t have a brain, neurons, or even a mouth, yet it can find efficient routes through a maze like a tiny yellow cartographer. Scientists ...