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Where do flies go in winter?

12 February 2019

Insect expert Eleanor Drinkwater takes on this listener's question

Engineering | Physics

What keeps jets in the air?

13 February 2011

Where is the best place to run a marathon?

13 February 2011

Biology | Medicine

Can blind people, or blind-folded people, walk in a straight line?

13 February 2011

Would water from 2000 ft up evaporate befoe it hits the ground?

13 February 2011

Does oil extraction leave a cavity?

13 February 2011

What is El Niño?

13 February 2011

Does Increasing the Concentration of a Reactant Speed up an Experiment?

13 February 2011

How did blue eyes evolve?

13 February 2011

What makes mucus green?

13 February 2011

How does magnetism multiply?

13 February 2011

Biology | Medicine

Do wild animals avoid incest?

13 February 2011

Earth Science | Physics

What would happen if 2 lightning bolts hit each other?

13 February 2011

Do we really need faster computing power?

06 February 2011

Is there a practical limit to how fast computing can become?

06 February 2011

Earth Science | Physics | Technology

Is sending an e-card environmentally friendly?

06 February 2011

Is sending an e-card more environmentally friendly than sending one made from trees?

Are newer computers more efficient than older ones?

06 February 2011

Archaeology | Medicine

Does leprosy interact with TB and other diseases?

30 January 2011

Archaeology | Medicine

Can one saw somebody's femur in half, and figure out how old the person was?

30 January 2011

Biology | Medicine

What happens if you use 99.9% effective sanitizer twice?

30 January 2011

What happens if you use 99.9% effective sanitizer twice?

How fast does gravity propagate?

25 January 2011

Is it possible to plot a clear course when travelling at light speed?

25 January 2011

Why doesn't solar wind move dust on the moon?

25 January 2011

Why doesn't the solstice coincide with the earliest dawn?

25 January 2011

Does Hawking radiation selectively emit matter, rather than antimatter?

25 January 2011

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