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Photographing the Venus transit
Last week, we explained why scientists are still interested in the Venus transit of the Sun, which featured this stunning photo taken by astronomer and TWDK contributor Nick Howes.© All rights reserved...
View ArticleMysteries, Magnetars and Majoranas
Hey guys, Jon again, just letting you know how things are going here in the land of Things We Don't Know now I'm almost halfway through my internship here. It's been a busy few days. I have still been...
View ArticleBubbles, bosons and unexplained biology
Did you know that if you hit a bubble with enough sound, you can make it implode, emitting UV light in the process? Because I didn't! The phenomenon is known as sonoluminescence, and since we can't...
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Questions the Higgs Boson may or may not answer
This guest blog was submitted by Prof. Steve Lloyd, Professor of Experimental Particle Physics at Queen Mary University of London.In 1964 when Peter Higgs first proposed the mechanism that bears his...
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Through the looking glass: symmetry and stained glass windows
So why are we here then? Come to that, why does anything exist at all? These questions might sound more philosophical than scientific, but this is the true scale of the questions on which the...
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Science communication and the Sun's crown
Have you ever seen a solar eclipse? Did you notice the ring of light spreading out from the dark circle where the Moon covers the Sun? That's called the corona (from the Latin word for crown, after its...
View ArticleThe line between knowledge and theory
There's a hexagon on Saturn's North Pole, and we don't know why.The northern lights make sounds, and we don't know how.Ebola is deadly and wildly contagious, but between outbreaks it must be hiding...
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Martian Curiosity
It looked like it shouldn't work. It looked like it couldn't work. It looked like NASA's most talented engineers had got drunk together at a party and, for a dare, designed the most ridiculous,...
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How many species are there?
Zen Faulkes is an Associate Professor of biology at The University of Texas-Pan American. He blogs at NeuroDojo and is @DoctorZen on Twitter. The south eastern United States is not exactly unexplored...
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Science, Art and Economics.
It’s been a couple of weeks since our physics intern (Jon Cheyne) finished his internship with us, and all in all it’s been a great experience for us - both working with SEPnet (a consortium of seven...
View ArticleWhy not economics?
We have more fascinating guest blogs coming soon, and hopefully some exciting new announcements, too.A few weeks ago I was on stage in Bern, Switzerland, explaining what Things We Don't Know is trying...
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Do Aliens Exist?
Asking scientists if they believe we're being visited by aliens in little flying saucers is likely to get you a few funny looks. Yet there are a number of scientists interested in the question "Do...
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Investigating Fragile X syndrome
This guest blog is by Rhiannon Meredith - a junior group leader at the VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Rhiannon is working with a research team to investigate the neurobiology of brain...
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Flying frogs
Gary McDowell is a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, and can be found on twitter as @BiophysicalFrogThere are many things we still don't know about the very first hours of an embryo's...
View ArticleWe’re recruiting!
Would you like to join Things We Don’t Know in explaining the questions to which science still seeks the answers?We are creating an interactive repository where people can read about all the mysteries...
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Things We Don't Know on stage in Berlin
The Sophiensæle, Berlin - former meeting place of the German Communist Party, and now a theatre, is probably not the sort of place you expect to find a group of entrepreneurs explaining their new...
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Why do we yawn?
With a newborn baby at home, you probably won't be surprised to hear I yawn a lot these days. But why do I do it? Although the answer seems obvious: "I'm tired", the question "why do we yawn" is very...
View ArticleWould you like to write for us?
Do you work in science and could share some of the things we don’t know about your area of expertise or research? We’d love for you to write a guest blog post for us to publish on this site. The...
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Biofuels – Why bother?
This guest blog was written by Joana Almeida - Doctoral student at the Forest Ecology and Management Research Group of KU Leuven, Belgium.A while ago someone figured out that the Earth's ever...
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Apocalypse When?
Today marks the end of the Mayan long count calendar. So will the world come to an end today? Probably not. But the world will come to an end eventually, and there are a number of scientists looking...
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