A part of the brain that, when stimulated, makes people sense ghostly presences. A structure on Mars that looks (to some eyes anyway) disturbingly like a face. A huge increase in human bite injuries (that’s right, people biting each other) on weekends and statutory holidays. A 2000-year old mechanical computer recovered from a Roman shipwreck.
Science has explanations, or is looking for them – but the explanations can be even odder and more provocative than the original question… ... Better yet, the search for explanations can lead to new insights about phenomenon we thought we had long since figured out.
A look at some of the strange phenomena scientists are confronted with and how they try to explain them.