Fast blue optical transients still defy explanation
Sky surveys keep catching a kind of cosmic explosion that astronomers can’t explain. They call them fast blue…
The Oh-My-God particle still defies explanation
On the evening of October 15, 1991, the University of Utah’s Fly’s Eye detector at Dugway Proving Ground…
Odd radio circles: giant unexplained space rings
Astronomers keep finding enormous rings of radio light in deep space that nothing in the textbooks can account…
Therapy and siblings: How much should I share?
Attempting a civil start to our first session, I made the rookie mistake of assuming it was best…
iPTF14hls: the star that has exploded six times and defies all theories
When astronomers first observed iPTF14hls in September 2014, they identified it as a supernova and expected it to…
Celebrity Number Six: Reddit’s four-year curtain mystery solved
In January 2020, a Finnish Reddit user posted a photo of curtains printed with eight celebrity faces and…
Medical Mysteries: For years she was told it was stress – a brain scan revealed the real cause
“It was concerning for me,” she said. “I’d always been regular, never on birth control.” Her gynaecologist suggested…
Twisting tale of ‘Henry VIII’s lost dagger’ to be told in London exhibition – The Art Newspaper
The story of a mysterious Ottoman dagger long believed to have been owned by Henry VIII—and stolen in…