Answers to Science Questions

When someone meets someone else, is there a special hidden smell that couples have between them, so that if you were...

Why do we get cravings for certain foods, especially when it's for combinations of foods that we normally don...

My family moved to Chicago from London three years ago and since then, I've lost my accent, yet Mum and Dad still...

How can active transport in plants possibly work?

We occasionally look after a dog when our friends go on holiday. We noticed that when it wees on the grass, the grass...

My blood group is O-negative, my parents are Group A, and my brother is Group A. I was wondering how I came to be this...

How do turtles stretch out their neck? What is their bone structure?

If you spill some water on the kitchen floor, it's obviously very slippery. Yet when you want to turn the pages...

I understand x-rays and how they work, but a couple of years ago, my son had a very serious eye injury. Over a period,...

Why does ouzo turn milky white when water is added? It must be mainly water to start with and as the concentration of...

I was just wondering what grenades are made out of, and why does it take a while to go off after the pin is taken out?

Do asteroids have a maximum speed or do they keep accelerating?

How dependent are we on satellites? If somebody put a computer bug in them, what would happen?

I look out of my window and see something that appears to be a satellite. It rises in the sky through the night. It...

Why did we send dogs into space?

I've been told that Santa Barbara is the third most dangerous place to live in the United States because it at...

We've been removing gas and oil through the surface of the Earth for hundreds of years. Would this have any effect...

I think I'm right in saying that diamonds are produced by some volcanoes. Why?

How does the Richter Scale work?

Why are there two or three waves in a tsunami instead of one?

Where do flies go at night time?

How do Venus fly traps sense their prey without nerve cells and how do they contract without muscles?

Why does the addition of bicarbonate of soda to the cooking of cabbage make it much softer and the colour stay much...

I want to whether the analysis of the Stardust comet dust can tell us about the origins of the universe and the theory...