<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/effa92f3-f39d-4e8e-aa4d-04bdd40e40c8/39F59286-EC5C-437C-BA65-3A6EDBF6302A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things" href="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><B>Michael Brooks</B> presents thirteen of the most perplexing.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.900-13-more-things-axis-of-evil.html">1.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.900-13-more-things-axis-of-evil.html"> Axis of evil </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327245.900-13-more-things-axis-of-evil.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327245.900/mg20327245.900-1_220.jpg" alt="(Image: WMAP / NASA)" /> </A> <P>Radiation left from the big bang is still glowing in the sky – in a mysterious and controversial pattern</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.000-13-more-things-dark-flow.html">2.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.000-13-more-things-dark-flow.html"> Dark flow </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.000-13-more-things-dark-flow.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327246.000/mg20327246.000-1_220.jpg" alt="The galaxy cluster 1E 0657-56, 3.8 billion light-years away, is one of hundreds that appear to be carried along by a mysterious cosmic flow (Image: NASA / STScI / Magellan / U.Arizona / D.Clowe et al)" /> </A> <P>Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.100-13-more-things-eocene-hothouse.html">3.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.100-13-more-things-eocene-hothouse.html"> Eocene hothouse </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.100-13-more-things-eocene-hothouse.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327246.100/mg20327246.100-1_220.jpg" alt="Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C (Image: judywhite / Rex Features)" /> </A> <P>Tens of millions of years ago, the average temperature at the poles was 15 or 20 °C. Now let's talk about climate change</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.200-13-more-things-flyby-anomalies.html">4.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.200-13-more-things-flyby-anomalies.html"> Fly-by anomalies </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.200-13-more-things-flyby-anomalies.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327246.200/mg20327246.200-1_220.jpg" alt="Artist's rendition of the Rosetta probe's closest approach to Earth, during its second fly-by on 13 November this year (Image: ESA - C. Carreau)" /> </A> <P>Space probes using Earth's gravity to get a slingshot speed boost are moving faster than they should. Call in dark matter</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.300-13-more-things-hybrid-life.html">5.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.300-13-more-things-hybrid-life.html"> Hybrid life </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.300-13-more-things-hybrid-life.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327246.300/mg20327246.300-1_220.jpg" alt="These sea squirts were created when two evolutionary lineages fused (Image: Gary Bell / Taxi / Getty)" /> </A> <P>The fusion of two distinct evolutionary lines is not supposed to work – but the seas are teeming with chimeras that prove it can</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.400-13-more-things-morgellons-disease.html">6.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><DIV class="pnlTxt"> <H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.400-13-more-things-morgellons-disease.html"> Morgellons disease </A> </H3> <DIV class="floatclear"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.400-13-more-things-morgellons-disease.html"> <IMG class="floatleft" src="http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/mg20327246.400/mg20327246.400-1_220.jpg" alt="Morgellons disease is unpleasant and debilitating; that is, if it exists (Image: Peter Cade / Stone / Getty)" /> </A> <P>Fatigue? Do you feel insects under your skin? Seen any strange fibres sprouting from your body? Then you've got a disease that's not supposed to exist</p> </DIV> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.500-13-more-things-the-bloop.html">7.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.500-13-more-things-the-bloop.html"> The Bloop </A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.600-13-more-things-antimatter-mystery.html">8.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.600-13-more-things-antimatter-mystery.html"> Antimatter mystery </A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.700-13-more-things-the-lithium-problem.html">9.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.700-13-more-things-the-lithium-problem.html"> The lithium problem </A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.800-13-more-things-magic-results.html">10</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H3 class="marker"> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327246.800-13-more-things-magic-results.html"> MAGIC results </A> </H3></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/special/13-more-things"><H6><A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327247.100-13-more-things-the-nocebo-effect.html">13.</A></H6></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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