Have you ever seen a picture that simply makes no sense. Here we have collected pictures from around the web that left us scratching our heads and saying "wut". See if you can explain what’s going on in the photos and read the explanations that other people write. picked by Doggylives 8 months ago

Scientists have split the atom, put men on the moon and discovered the DNA of which we are made, but there are 10 key mysteries of human behaviour which they have failed to fully explain. vv LOOK DOWN vv Seriously, this is a 100% [u] dupe [/u] of the link about 5 posts below. -sk Look at the links... One links to NewScientist.com, one links to Telegraph.co.uk. Similar subject matter does... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

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But no one knows exactly why this is the case.*struggle* picked by Bornbad 11 months ago

Even today, two years after Mark Foley's very public fall from grace, the former congressman can't explain why he sent lurid, sexually explicit computer messages to male teens who had worked as Capitol Hill pages. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Female gorillas use sex as a tactic to thwart their rivals, new research suggests. Pregnant apes court their silverback male to stop other females conceiving.

This kind of competitive behaviour may even help explain how humans evolved into a mostly monogamous species, she says. picked by Doggylives 3 months ago

DUNDEE UNIVERSITY researchers have made a discovery that could explain why some infants are more susceptible to cot death and serious illnesses. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Funny, Emmy-winning Uncle Jay thinks it’s really, really important for today’s news to be understood by today’s innocent, ignorant and immature minds.

Also children. picked by hypnotode 2 years ago

“Explaining Religion”, as the project is known, is the largest-ever scientific study of the subject. Science and religion have often been at loggerheads. Now the former has decided to resolve the problem by trying to explain the existence of the latter. Non-believing scientists look at the advantages of belief.. picked by bearsuit 2 years ago

People with type O blood have a lower risk of developing pancreatic cancer (yay), say US researchers.

The researchers believe the study may also help explain what causes one of the deadliest kinds of cancer. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

The universe appears to be lopsided, and a new model that aims to explain this anomaly could offer a glimpse of what happened before the birth of it all. picked by AutumnLotus 10 months ago

With the conventional theory of gravitation, based on Newton’s ideas and refined by Einstein 92 years ago, dark matter helps to explain the motion of galaxies, and clusters of galaxies, on the largest scales. Now two Canadian researchers suggest that the motion of galaxies in a distant cluster is more easily explained by a Modified Gravity (MOG) theory than by the presence of dark matter. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A mathematical "theory" devised by psychiatrist and neuroscientist Giulio Tononi to explain the elusive concept of consciousness. picked by sidran32 4 months ago

Sexual selection can’t explain the homosexuality that’s been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. This means that same-sex sexuality—long disparaged as a quirk of human culture—is a normal, and probably necessary, fact of life picked by misswinkle 2 years ago

Flowers "wave" at insects to get their attention, scientists have discovered.

The finding helps explain why many flowers waft in the breeze, and reveals a hitherto unknown trick used to attract pollinators. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Ignoring the fact that an effective single party government, a government where consenting voices can be ignored is dangerous, Pelosi is jumping for joy that the Democrats may not have to be bothered with trying to put a good swing on their ideas and will be able to ram them through. picked by 2manyusernames 7 months ago

Pope Benedict, elaborating his views on evolution for the first time as Pontiff, says science has narrowed the way life's origins are understood and Christians should take a broader approach to the question. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

An ancient Eastern meditation called "Tummo" may explain why a Westerner can withstand extreme cold conditions. It has doctors baffled. picked by PatrickFlorida 2 years ago

This scene would explain how everyone got on and off the planet. Parked out in the desert here is the Milennium Falcon and Luke's X-wing. The script also mentions a two-seated Y-wing being there as well. picked by AutumnLotus 9 months ago

Magnetic waves ripple through the Sun's outer atmosphere with enough energy to heat the region to its astonishing temperature of millions of degrees, new views from the Hinode spacecraft suggest. If correct, the waves could solve a decades-long puzzle about the source of this heat. Includes video. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

EVER had a feeling come over you that you just can't explain? Like suddenly getting all warm and fuzzy when you meet someone for the first time, while somebody else who looks just as good leaves you cold?

Human reactions may have a reasonable explanation after all, although one that not everyone will be happy to hear. They may be reactions to other people's pheromones. picked by bingo 12 months ago