Answers to Science Questions

Why do you close your eyes when you sneeze?

When she was younger, she went to chicken pox and mumps parties to spread the illness and build up her immune system....

Can animal fleas live on humans?

If left handed people are made to write with their right hand, will it cause confusion in the brain? I wondered whether...

I was 35 when I realised that I had synaesthesia but no-one in my family has it. I was wondering if it was the brain...

How many cells are there in the brain, and how powerful is a black hole?

Is left handedness genetic, and are left handed people more artistically creative?

Why do you hear your own voice differently to other people?

How did the American chicken live for seven years with its head chopped off?

If you had a stem cell transplant, would your DNA change?

I haven't heard anything for about 6 months about drilling into Lake Vostok. I was wondering how people were...

Why has there been such a delay in responding to climate change? It was mentioned in my school days 50 or 60 years ago.

What effect have the atomic tests that were carried out in the 1960s had on the environment?

Macrophages can clean up debris in the lungs. One of your guests the other week said that these phages can help the...

I was hypnotised and thought I was a Dutch girl from 1815. Was this my former life?

I really need to give up smoking but I just can't seem to do it. I have chronic pain after an operation, chronic...

I went to a hypnotist to stop smoking in the early 1980s and it worked for about a year. I went away on holiday and...

What are the dangers of hypnosis? Would it help with my anxiety disorder?

I was hypnotised when I was 25. I'm now 67 and I've smoked once in between. The session cost me £4...

Can hypnosis help tinnitus? It was brought on by two very stressful incidents. Tinnitus is when you get noises in the...

I was hypnotised over 30 years ago and it cost me £5. At the time I was very angry with the hypnotist because...

Eels manage to move from one bit of water to another. To do this they must go over land. How do they do it?

Programmes always show dinosaurs as being slow. I don't they think they would have been. I think they would have...

How do they name dinosaurs and the periods of time that relate to dinosaurs?