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Where do flies go in winter?

12 February 2019

Insect expert Eleanor Drinkwater takes on this listener's question

How do snakes digest large meals?

28 November 2010

How much does the Earth weigh?

28 November 2010

Archaeology | Biology | Medicine

Do head lice like dirty or clean hair more?

28 November 2010

Which head of hair do headlice prefer: clean hair, or dirty hair...

Biology | Medicine

Why do the male private parts shrink in cold weather?

28 November 2010

How does a drinking straw work?

28 November 2010

Do sea shells all spiral in the same direction?

28 November 2010

Chemistry | Physics

Why does dishwashing soap make bubbles?

28 November 2010

Why is an unopened carton so much harder to shake?

28 November 2010

Does it weigh less to transport flying birds?

28 November 2010

Did cave-men hunt and cave-women cook?

28 November 2010

Engineering | Technology

How accurate is GPS for measuring speed?

28 November 2010

Medicine | Technology

Can 2nd Life Avatars be controlled by thought?

21 November 2010

Can we download/upload information to or from the brain?

21 November 2010

Biology | Medicine

Is there any evidence that St John's Wort works for anxiety?

21 November 2010

What happens when a caterpillar pupates?

21 November 2010

What happens when a caterpillar pupates? Does it liquefy into some sort of protein-sludge and start from scratch or...

What happens when you stop taking cognition enhancing drugs?

21 November 2010

Is it true drugs like Adderrall and Provigil do not leave you with a sleep deficit?

21 November 2010

Is the Cambrian period named after Cambridge?

14 November 2010

Chemistry | Engineering | Physics

If we didn’t burn this thick sulphurous diesel in the marine engines that we’ve got, what could we actually do with it?

14 November 2010

Are there health risks associated with eating fish?

14 November 2010

Earth Science | Engineering

Are there any other means of propulsion other than a propeller?

14 November 2010

Engineering | Technology

When will we get robotic cargo ships with no crew on them?

14 November 2010

Biology | Medicine | Physics

How many bees to boil a human?

14 November 2010

Could enough bees band together and form a bee ball big enough to boil a human?

I heard that radiation treatment for breast cancer can cause leukaemia. Is that true?

07 November 2010

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