Answers to Science Questions

On average, how many flies do we accidentally eat every single day?

Why are insects, which have composite eyes, not blinded by the sun? Apparently they have no eyelids that they can shut...

It's well known in the USA that bees are dying. This is having profound effects on certain types of agriculture....

I found a couple of beetles over an inch long and the shell looked like a withered acorn. The wing span was nearly two...

I saw a bunch of ants that were crowding around some food crumbs on the pavement. Do ants sleep? They seem to be...

I work in a bakery and years ago we used to get a lot of cockroaches. We used to stack the bread tins inside one...

My mother left the lid off a jar of honey in a food cupboard. We'd never seen any ants there before, but they...

This morning I listened to the May 14th broadcast. One of the discussions was about the stinging cells (nematocysts) of...

I understand the basic idea that for every action there is a reaction, which is why I can walk across the ground. But...

Please can you calculate how much extra fuel will be burned by a motorist during the current World Cup campaign as a...

What happens to the great hollows that we're leaving below the sea beds when you extract all this oil and gas?

I've been following the progress of solar panels and hear that they're only about 16% efficient. What's...

If sound and heat are both vibrations, then why isn't sound hot and heat loud?

If someone has an amputation, do they get high blood pressure because there's less body space for the blood to...

If everything on the planet got wiped out by a bomb, could life start again like it did originally?

If you hold your lips closed with your fingers and breathe out as hard as you can, and then release your fingers, you...

Do you think we'll ever beat the speed of light?

Why do some people suffer so badly with static electric shocks? It's particularly bad when I get out of my car.

When I take a painkiller, how does it know where the pain is?

I learnt in school many years ago that food takes 12 to 24 hours to travel through the body. As I've got older,...

When people measure carbon dioxide, a lot of the time it is measured in weight. They'll say that your car releases...

Why doesn't nature make any straight lines?

We kept Friesian cows for about fifteen years. Sometimes they got sunburnt but only on the white patches. Why?

If you have oil on the surface of a dirty pot and you add washing up liquid, why is it that all the oil shoots to the...