Mystery

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timesonline.co.uk • Mon 2009 Feb 9, 8:28pm

Ever thought you might need to slip quietly off the radar? Meet Frank Ahearn, America's leading skip tracer, and now — for the clients he helps flee criminal threats and violent partners — its most improbable guardian angel

Doctors don't know why my baby daughter isn't getting any bigger

mirror.co.uk • Mon 2009 Feb 2, 7:06pm

The brown-eyed youngster is now 14-months-old and should weigh at least 20lb. Yet she is still the size of a newborn baby, tipping the scales at just over 7lb and a mere 19in. Suraya has been examined by a whole team of specialists including paediatricians, nutritionists, geneticists and hormone experts. But doctors say they still have no idea why she won't grow — describing her condition as a "real conundrum".

13 things that do not make sense

newscientist.com • Mon 2009 Feb 2, 3:33pm

1 The placebo effect Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.

13 Things We Can't Explain

impactlab.com • Mon 2009 Feb 2, 3:33pm

Even with all of our science and research capabilities there are things we simply cannot explain. Here are 13 mind benders that have been puzzling the science world. 1 The placebo effect 2 The horizon problem 3 Ultra-energetic cosmic rays 4 Belfast homeopathy results 5 Dark matter 6 Viking's methane 7 Tetraneutrons 8 The Pioneer anomaly 9 Dark energy 10 The Kuiper cliff 11 The Wow signal 12 Not-so-constant constants 13 Cold fusion