Answers to Science Questions

Is Lyme's disease a big problem?

What causes freckles to come out in the sunshine?

How do the weather people do it?

Is there any truth to the shepherd saying?

What's going on in my ears when they pop after a flight?

What's upped the pollen count?

Why does burnt skin flake instead of becoming beautifully bronzed?

What is causing the current heatwave?

Is there an evolutionary advantage to boredom?

Is it possible to weigh things in space?

Is it good for trees to be boxed into the pavement?

Dark matter exists all throughout the universe...right?

Why does every Disney lyric get stuck in our heads?

The quantum world is strange, so what are entangled particles?

Does light have a mass?

Bee stings hurt, but why do they hurt the bee even more?

Goldfish might be smarter than you think

No one wants rust, but what makes it happen?

We often get very angry when we get hungry, but why might that be?

They're the stuff of sci-fi, but how do lasers actually work?

What exactly is déjà vu? Have we asked this before?

Things get very strange indeed inside a black hole, but what would Earth look like?

Could we eat aliens?

For this Question of the Week, Mike wanted to know why his nose runs when he cycles in cold weather, but not in warm...