Answers to Science Questions

I've watched astronauts go to lots of trouble trying to install solar panels onto space stations. Why haven't...

Could you please explain to me the very basics of string theory? I failed lego at school and I'm not very...

I was in Peru a while ago and saw an saw an ancient ceramic pot from the Moche culture with a very gruesome...

Did Atlantis actually exist? Also, there's supposed to be a cave in France that seems to show planets and was...

Did oil or natural petroleum deposits really come from primordial forests? With the thousands of barrels of oil taken...

If we lose gravity, what will happen? Will everything fly up in the air?

I come from Dorset and there's a hill with a pond up there. The strange thing is that it never dries out. Why is...

Can you tell me how carbon dating works?

I have some frogs in my garden and they come up to me and let me tickle them. Why is this?

Why are most plants green? Sure, it's because chlorophyll rejects green light, but why does it? The green part of...

Are there any advanced and complex multicellular animals that have chloroplasts inside their bodies or under their skin?

Can you please explain why some pinot grapes turn into great wines and some don't. Is it down to soil chemistry...

I've been hearing a lot about when you get frost on your car first thing in the morning and people saying that it...

If clouds are made up of water, why do they differ in colour, from fluffy white to dark and black?

Given that as altitude increases, temperature decreases, does this means that when precipitation falls from clouds it...

Do fish fart, and if so, where do they come from because you don't see any bubbles?

Why do French beans squeak when you eat them but runner beans don't?

My friend and I went to give blood the other day and were curious about how the body knows that it's a pint short...

As light from other galaxies takes so long to reach us, can we be sure that any of them are still there?

My wife was out on Friday evening and noticed that the Moon was much larger than normal. Is there a reason for this?

Tapping the top of an open beer bottle produces a beer volcano - why?

If you have a star which is approximately 860,000 miles across and it explodes like a supernova, would the matter...

Why do hairs grow at different rates?