Answers to Medicine Questions

Who's at more risk; car drivers or motorcyclists?

How much land do you need to live?

Should you really wee on it?

When should I get a mark on my skin checked out? How do you know if there's a problem with it?

What causes freckles to come out in the sunshine?

What's going on in my ears when they pop after a flight?

What's upped the pollen count?

Why does burnt skin flake instead of becoming beautifully bronzed?

Why does every Disney lyric get stuck in our heads?

We often get very angry when we get hungry, but why might that be?

What exactly is déjà vu? Have we asked this before?

Could we eat aliens?

For this Question of the Week, Mike wanted to know why his nose runs when he cycles in cold weather, but not in warm...

If all cells have the same DNA, why are some nail cells and others eye cells?

Is cancer something we could have evolved our way out of?

How do they survive without a nucleus?

Geneticist and Neuroscientist Giles Yeo was able to cook up an answer...

But I can CERTAINLY hear my partner snoring!

What's the difference between allergy and intolerance?

Caller Richard had a question for our own Chris Smith

How do they know if their queen dies?

It's not *that* bad, Cambridge University's Bobby Seagull explained why.

Genetists, Giles Yeo, crunched the numbers...