Question of the Week

Which planes are suited to hurricane research?

Could you pick a Neanderthal child out of a line up?

How are wombat droppings cube shaped?

How dangerous is second hand smoking?

Are we better off being barefoot?

What makes Blu-Tack so sticky?

Can we terraform the Moon so it's habitable to humans long-term?

Do wild animals get allergies, and if so, do they get them as much as we do?

We do this question by the numbers...

What's the science behind non-stick pans?

We got the lay of the land for this question!

Does the brain respond differently to reading versus listening?

Why do we get bored and what is the advantage of boredom?

Astronaut Michael Foale weighs in on a question that's out of this world...

Would it be possible to eat any aliens we found?

We sniffed out an answer to this cool conundrum!

How come smaller animals seem to survive falls that a larger animal wouldn't?

Is boiling them alive inhumane?

Should you run to reduce the amount of time out in the cold, or do the adverse effects of moving faster outweigh the...

And why doesn't dried pasta do the same?

The Waite family wanted to know if fish yawn, so Heather Wark spoke to Iain Barber from Nottingham Trent University to...

Would a giant gun be a suitable launch vehicle for the next generation of spacecraft?

What makes it so satisfying?

Is it safe? Or will the engine cut out?