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Based on Michael Brooks's popular article for New Scientist--one of the most forwarded articles in the magazine's online history--13 Things That Don't Make Sense tackles the most hotly debated topics in science today, from the placebo effect to life on Mars, and shows how these conundrums are changing the way scientists approach their work and why these issues will define science in the twenty-first century.
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Science, Miscellanea, Science, miscellanea, Popular scienceShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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13 things that don't make sense: the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time
2010, Profile
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13 things that don't make sense: the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time
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Originally published: 2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing. The effects of homeopathy don't go away under rigorous scientific conditions. The laws of nature aren't what they used to be. Thirty years on, no one has an explanation for a seemingly intelligent signal received from outer space. The US Department of Energy is re-examining cold fusion because the experimental evidence seems too solid to ignore. The placebo effect is put to work in medicine while doctors can't agree whether it even exists. In an age when science is supposed to be king, scientists are beset by experimental results they simply can't explain. But, if the past is anything to go by, these anomalies contain the seeds of future revolutions. While taking readers on an entertaining tour d'horizon of the strangest of scientific findings - involving everything from our lack of free will to Martian methane that offers new evidence of life on the planet - the author argues that the things we don't understand are the key to what we are about to discover. -- Publisher details.
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