explanation

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This effectively shuts down one of the most widely discussed explanations for unusual neutrino behavior.

From Science Daily

The oversight was a small thing with plausible explanations.

From The Wall Street Journal

So many explanations and justifications, so many verbal contortions as he attempts to talk through his latest defeat.

From BBC

An autopsy did not reveal a clear explanation for his death.

From Science Daily

"Our findings provide the first cellular explanation for microcephaly in people with the rare Baraitser-Winter syndrome," says Indra Niehaus, first author of the study and research associate at Hannover Medical School.

From Science Daily