Answers to Science Questions

I was fitting a multi-fuel burner in the living room and want to know where to fit the carbon monoxide detector. Should...

If tapeworms make you really skinny, why don't you give them to fat people until they lose weight and then take...

Why do people fart?

How can maggots be used in health care and experiments?

Has anyone been seriously ill from taking these worms?

I have recently bought these cool hand warmers that are filled with a gel and a metal disc. When you bend the metal...

Why do we feel better after sneezing?

How's a rainbow made in the sky?

What is the best way to burn fat from the abdominal area, or in other words, a beer belly?! And why does it collect...

When you snap a glowstick, what makes it glow?

How can I stay in one room and study and read and relax all day long and nothing seems funny. But my bedroom always...

We'd like to thank James Smith, who got in touch via email and thinks he has the answer to the 'red sky at...

You talked in the past about dropping an object down a tunnel that's been drilled right through the earth. I'...

Here in the Philippines we have a delicacy called a balot. This is a half incubated duck chick. The fully shelled chick...

How do butterfly wings get all their colours?

Where do people get all the information for the movies, and how do you know that aliens are really real?

In 1993 or 1994 during the darkest part of winter, I went outside and looked up. The sky was quite clear and there was...

I've seen a UFO. It was 1959 from a block of flats in Hoburn. It was solid and looked like chrome and was 100 foot...

On the day of the Rendlesham incident, I was in Beeston and it was a terrible snowy day. I took my dogs for a walk and...

I've had two sightings. The first one was big like an orange, and it was moving very sharply. It kept moving...

Is it true that talking to plants helps them grow better?

Many years ago I was told that six foot fluorescent strip lights are more efficient and need less energy than tungsten...

What's the difference between fuel sold in the winter and in the summer?

If I cut off my finger, why don't cells keep on dividing and give me a new finger? They gave me a finger when I...