Unsolved
adjective
Not found an answer, explanation, or solution for.
The murder case remained unsolved for years.
Often appears as...
- unsolved mystery
- unsolved problem
adjective
Not found an answer, explanation, or solution for.
The murder case remained unsolved for years.
Often appears as...
- unsolved mystery
- unsolved problem
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Pro Tip 1/3Lingering Questions
Use 'unsolved' when something still raises questions or causes wonder because no answer has been found.
The legend of Atlantis is an unsolved puzzle, sparking curiosity worldwide.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Unsolved' often carries a sense of frustration or concern, especially in matters needing closure.
The victims' families were distraught over the unsolved nature of the case.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Crimes
Although common in legal contexts, 'unsolved' applies to any unresolved issue or question.
Scientists are facing unsolved questions about the universe.
Pro Tip 1/3Lingering Questions
Use 'unsolved' when something still raises questions or causes wonder because no answer has been found.
The legend of Atlantis is an unsolved puzzle, sparking curiosity worldwide.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Unsolved' often carries a sense of frustration or concern, especially in matters needing closure.
The victims' families were distraught over the unsolved nature of the case.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Crimes
Although common in legal contexts, 'unsolved' applies to any unresolved issue or question.
Scientists are facing unsolved questions about the universe.
Pro Tip 1/3Lingering Questions
Use 'unsolved' when something still raises questions or causes wonder because no answer has been found.
The legend of Atlantis is an unsolved puzzle, sparking curiosity worldwide.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Weight
'Unsolved' often carries a sense of frustration or concern, especially in matters needing closure.
The victims' families were distraught over the unsolved nature of the case.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Just Crimes
Although common in legal contexts, 'unsolved' applies to any unresolved issue or question.
Scientists are facing unsolved questions about the universe.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
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Kayvon Tehranian: How...
relationships, sense of self, are all often more mediated through our digital contexts than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world --
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Explore cave paintings...
or spiritual journeys. Or could they be art for art's sake, the sheer joy and fulfillment of creation? As with many unsolved mysteries of the ancient world, we may never know for sure, barring the invention of a time machine, that is.
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Is the world getting...
That would be a miracle, and progress is not a miracle but problem-solving. Problems are inevitable and solutions create new problems which have to be solved in their turn. The unsolved problems facing the world today are gargantuan,
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Cosmos: A Spacetime...
was all about bringing them to life cosmos might re-energize what I think is a built-in curiosity that we all have about how the world works and what our place is within it the origin of life is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries
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Amelia Earhart Part I:...
and i think there's one more folder here there's something called the amelia earhart foundation you know it talks about an unsolved mystery archivist kathy hunter is showing me a stack of memorabilia from deep inside
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Secrets of Stonehenge PIPE...
entrance but while we know this was an incredible feat of Engineering who these people were and why they built Stonehenge has remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world
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Do we see reality as it...
I love a great mystery, and I'm fascinated by the greatest unsolved mystery in science, perhaps because it's personal. It's about who we are, and I can't help but be curious. The mystery is
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Saving the Redwoods PIPE...
this for a fact but I think it was probably the largest showing of civil disobedience for wilderness or the wild that the world has ever seen in an unsolved case two redwood activists were
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Neil Turok: 2008 TED...
full of a strange kind of energy -- inflationary energy -- which blew it up. But the puzzle of why the universe emerged in that peculiar state is completely unsolved.
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The unexpected math...
was remarkably close to the way turbulent flow works, although a complete description of turbulence remains one of the unsolved problems in physics. A turbulent flow is self-similar if there is an energy cascade. In other words, big eddies transfer their energy to smaller eddies, which do likewise at other scales.
Video examples
Kayvon Tehranian: How...
relationships, sense of self, are all often more mediated through our digital contexts than our physical ones. Yet, Barlow's riddle has remained vexingly unsolved. Concepts like property and ownership -- ideas that have been with us for centuries in the physical world --
Video examples
Explore cave paintings...
or spiritual journeys. Or could they be art for art's sake, the sheer joy and fulfillment of creation? As with many unsolved mysteries of the ancient world, we may never know for sure, barring the invention of a time machine, that is.
Video examples
Is the world getting...
That would be a miracle, and progress is not a miracle but problem-solving. Problems are inevitable and solutions create new problems which have to be solved in their turn. The unsolved problems facing the world today are gargantuan,
Video examples
Cosmos: A Spacetime...
was all about bringing them to life cosmos might re-energize what I think is a built-in curiosity that we all have about how the world works and what our place is within it the origin of life is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries
Video examples
Amelia Earhart Part I:...
and i think there's one more folder here there's something called the amelia earhart foundation you know it talks about an unsolved mystery archivist kathy hunter is showing me a stack of memorabilia from deep inside
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Secrets of Stonehenge PIPE...
entrance but while we know this was an incredible feat of Engineering who these people were and why they built Stonehenge has remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of the ancient world
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Do we see reality as it...
I love a great mystery, and I'm fascinated by the greatest unsolved mystery in science, perhaps because it's personal. It's about who we are, and I can't help but be curious. The mystery is
Video examples
Saving the Redwoods PIPE...
this for a fact but I think it was probably the largest showing of civil disobedience for wilderness or the wild that the world has ever seen in an unsolved case two redwood activists were
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Neil Turok: 2008 TED...
full of a strange kind of energy -- inflationary energy -- which blew it up. But the puzzle of why the universe emerged in that peculiar state is completely unsolved.
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Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
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Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli Scientist
The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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Zak Bagans
American Author
The best part of my job is being able to travel to places to investigate powerful stories, many of which contains unsolved mysteries and deaths. To me as a documentarian and paranormal investigator, this puts the adventure in my life and meaning to my job.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
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Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.
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Peter Thiel
American Businessman
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
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India Eisley
American Actress
I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.
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Andrew Wiles
English Mathematician
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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Robert Graysmith
I'd always been fascinated by Jack the Ripper and other unsolved crimes.
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Marissa Mayer
American Businesswoman
Search is an unsolved problem.
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Alan Dershowitz
American Lawyer
On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are 'solved' to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.
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Aaron Ciechanover
Israeli Scientist
The problem of different sensitivities of distinct protein groups to lysosomal inhibitors has remained unsolved and may have served as an important trigger in the future quest for a non-lysosomal proteolytic system that may be involved in at least certain aspects of intracellular protein degradation.
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Zak Bagans
American Author
The best part of my job is being able to travel to places to investigate powerful stories, many of which contains unsolved mysteries and deaths. To me as a documentarian and paranormal investigator, this puts the adventure in my life and meaning to my job.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.
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Gunter Blobel
German Scientist
Although I completed two years of internship in various small hospitals, I decided against continuing my medical training. I was much more fascinated by the unsolved problems of medicine than by practicing it.
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Peter Thiel
American Businessman
Unsolved problems are where you'll find opportunity. Energy is one sector with extremely urgent unsolved problems.
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India Eisley
American Actress
I was always obsessed with crime, crime shows, anything to do with unsolved cold cases.
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Andrew Wiles
English Mathematician
Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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Robert Graysmith
I'd always been fascinated by Jack the Ripper and other unsolved crimes.
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Marissa Mayer
American Businesswoman
Search is an unsolved problem.
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