Answers to Science Questions

Where do seedless grapes come from?

Is it true that if you add fizzy mixers to alcoholic spirits you get drunk more quickly than if you added the same...

Can the muscles in the lower part of the bowel be repaired?

While I'm working, what percentage of my brain is being used?

On last week's show you were talking about polonium 210 being difficult to obtain but in fact anyone can buy it...

The big bang theory... what went bang?

What's a flame made of? Is it made of carbon, and if so can substances that don't contain carbon actually...

What would happen if you lit a match in space? Considering there's oxygen in the air on a space station but no up...

According to the Hubble space telescope, the known universe is expanding. What is it expanding in to and how far can it...

Why don't spiders run out of silk?

What happens physiologically when the body is cut off from oxygen?

Can magnetic anti-shoplifting strips get reactivated after your purchase, causing alarms to go off? How do they work?

If space has a curvature and is expanding outwards, how long before it goes around in a circle and kicks us up the...

What limits the length of the human life?

How does a fly land on the ceiling? Aren't its wings beating in the wrong direction?

What happens if you fire a two bullets from an aircraft moving at 1000mph? One is fired forwards at 1000mph and the...

What are the properties of baking soda that allow it to alleviate nasty odours in my refrigerator?

A car across the street has a flashing blue security light that's very faint when you look straight at it. But...

If the retina is grown on the back of the eye, as a part of the back of the eye, why does it seem to detach so easily,...

I had a detached retina in 1980. Although it was repaired in 1982, would it be possible to make it better than it is...

I have a lazy eye. It can't be rectified because it's something to do with the brain not connecting with the...

I saw a documentary about frogs, which during the winter literally freeze solid. Come spring, they seem to de-freeze...

I am having an argument with a friend, about whether or not body odour is a matter of fact or opinion. Can you...

Since the Antarctic is landlocked, is it believed that underneath the ice but above the land (in other words sandwiched...