When the Next Big One arrives, spreading across oceans and continents like the sweep of nightfall, causing illness and fear, killing thousands or maybe millions of people, it will be signaled first by quiet, puzzling reports from faraway places — reports to which disease scientists and public health officials, but few of the rest of us, pay close attention.
This would explain the puzzling results reported by previous works that growth exponents n=3 or higher have been observed in the grain growth of faceted crystals.
More surprises, in addition to the puzzling findings reported by Martin and colleagues [ 1], regarding T1/ST2 signaling in health and disease are likely to be discovered.
One puzzling observation reported here is that the modification of DILP6 expression in pupae can alter the adult mass as well as the resistance of animals to starvation at eclosion.
Our data not only provide a first glimpse on the mitochondrial gene pool of pigs that probably have a Berber ancestry, but also help to solve a puzzling finding reported by Clop et al. [ 3] 10 years ago i.e. the high frequency of the Far Eastern A2 MT-CYB haplotype in CB pigs.
All in all, then, it was a puzzling and disappointing report.
Yet alongside the benefits, people taking placebos often report puzzling side effects – nausea, headaches, or pain – that are unlikely to come from an inert tablet.
It may be the reason why certain houses seem cursed with illness, and why people living near wind turbines report puzzling outbreaks of dizziness, insomnia and vomiting.
They argue that this is "particularly puzzling" as his report "simultaneously uses the same information we provided to form significant parts of his inquiry in respect of the Australian and Qatar World Cup bids".
When Voinnet joined the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris in 1992 for a master's degree program, biologists had just started to report puzzling observations in which foreign genes inserted in plants were actually shut down.
