Astro. ISN. Physique. News. Chaos. Encyclopedie_libre. Chimie. The Greatest Mysteries in Science. A couple years back, we asked several scientists from various fields what they thought were the greatest mysteries, resulting in the list below. None of them has been solved since. Now we'd like you to decide which is the single greatest mystery of science. Voting continues through Sunday, May 3. We'll enshrine the whole Top 10 of your chosing in a new list. How Does the Brain Work? <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="utf-8" src=" <a href=" the Greatest Mystery in Science? Dossier sur la police scientifique. Répertoire de thèses. Homepage - ressources européennes pour enseignement scientifique. 13 things that do not make sense. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2|3|4|5|6 Read more: 13 more things that don't make sense 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. This is the placebo effect: somehow, sometimes, a whole lot of nothing can be very powerful. So what is going on? Benedetti has since shown that a saline placebo can also reduce tremors and muscle stiffness in people with Parkinson's disease. We have a lot to learn about what is happening here, Benedetti says, but one thing is clear: the mind can affect the body's biochemistry. 2 The horizon problem OUR universe appears to be unfathomably uniform.
This "horizon problem" is a big headache for cosmologists, so big that they have come up with some pretty wild solutions. So, in effect, inflation solves one mystery only to invoke another. More From New Scientist.