Answers to Science Questions

Do scientists have any understanding of the mechanisms that skills, that animals such as humans, learn and pass to...

Why is it that when I eat spicy foods my tongue burns and I sweat like crazy? Also, why is it that when I drink water,...

Why do living tissues turn black after being exposed to critically low temperatures?

When I go to the GP, I often get my blood pressure tested. How often do the instruments that are used for this kind of...

My children can make the screw tops of their plastic soda bottles 'talk'. You wet them and place them upside...

In response to your discussion last week about whether you can use urine on jellyfish stings: I lived in Hawaii for...

I have hay fever and I was wondering why grass has pollen.

Using equal amounts of fruit squash and water, a drink is always stronger when the squash is poured in before the water...

What's the highest possible temperature that you can achieve?

What causes labyrinthitis and is there a cure?

There's a myth (or is it truth) that urine from a human can negate a jellyfish sting. Is that an urban legend?

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?