I hate when they se terms like “cannot be explained” in the headline, and then proceed to explain it in the article.

How lazy are journalists and editors these days?

I’m right there with you when that kind of clickbaiting crops up, but this article actually isn’t doing that; they’re actually quoting the researchers:

Mn-based passivation is a counter-intuitive discovery, which cannot be explained by current knowledge in corrosion science. However, when numerous atomic-level results were presented, we were convinced