A huge, 200km-wide whirlpool off the coast of Australia is baffling scientists. This slow moving whirlpool, which takes one week to rotate once, is also "invisible to the human eye", making it all the more mysterious and baffling.

Makeup experts and hairdressers are helping archaeologists reduce their bafflement at Roman beauty utensils. "We hope [makeup experts and hairdressers'] knowledge [of beauty utensils] can help us [scientists] identify some of the items in our collection which have so far baffled us," a baffled scientist said.