Could you pick a Neanderthal child out of a line up?
Question of the Week
We solve the weirdest, wackiest, funniest and funkiest scientific questions, queries and puzzles...
26 November 2018
How do dogs identify other dogs?
19 November 2018
Which planes are suited to hurricane research?
12 November 2018
Could you pick a Neanderthal child out of a line up?
29 October 2018
How are wombat droppings cube shaped?
22 October 2018
How dangerous is second hand smoking?
01 October 2018
Are we better off being barefoot?
24 September 2018
What makes Blu-Tack so sticky?
17 September 2018
Can we terraform the Moon so it's habitable to humans long-term?
03 September 2018
Do wild animals get allergies, and if so, do they get them as much as we do?
20 August 2018
We do this question by the numbers...
06 August 2018
What's the science behind non-stick pans?
31 July 2018
We got the lay of the land for this question!
16 July 2018
Does the brain respond differently to reading versus listening?
02 July 2018
Why do we get bored and what is the advantage of boredom?
25 June 2018
Astronaut Michael Foale weighs in on a question that's out of this world...
04 June 2018
Would it be possible to eat any aliens we found?
21 May 2018
We sniffed out an answer to this cool conundrum!
05 March 2018
How come smaller animals seem to survive falls that a larger animal wouldn't?
12 February 2018
Is boiling them alive inhumane?
05 February 2018
Should you run to reduce the amount of time out in the cold, or do the adverse effects of moving faster outweigh the...
29 January 2018
And why doesn't dried pasta do the same?
18 December 2017
The Waite family wanted to know if fish yawn, so Heather Wark spoke to Iain Barber from Nottingham Trent University to...
11 December 2017
Would a giant gun be a suitable launch vehicle for the next generation of spacecraft?
20 November 2017
What makes it so satisfying?