/r/askscience - top ten submissions for each month of 2016
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2016, December
19223 If we could drain the ocean, could we breath or...
8242 With today's discovery that hydrogen and anti-h...
8107 If fire is a reaction limited to planets with o...
7826 Why are snowflakes flat?
6598 What has made solar energy so much more expensi...
6768 Water is clear. Why is snow white?
5515 My 5-year-old wants to know: What would happen ...
5736 Why do some parrots live 30+ years, some 100+ a...
4927 Why do we have two of certain organs while only...
5195 Does this* number have a name?
2016, November
9144 Why do flames take a clearly defined form, rath...
9344 In terms of a percentage, how much oil is left ...
8876 Carbon in all forests is 638 GtC. Annual carbon...
8175 In this gif of white blood cells attacking a pa...
11795 If we detonated large enough of a nuclear bomb ...
7289 Given recent developments in our understanding ...
7197 Why do tires on cars when doing a burnout give ...
7199 How does radio stations transmit the name of th...
6554 Why can online videos load multiple high defini...
6336 What is the fastest beats per minute we can hea...
2016, October
9015 How much more dangerous would lightning strikes...
8648 If, theoretically, you were in an infinite size...
9561 If you had a completely empty universe, in whic...
9930 Has it been scientifically proven that Nuclear ...
9403 If you watch a gif of a coin flipping (without ...
6186 Is it possible to find the algorithm for a rand...
6127 Why do sponges get hard when dry but only after...
6293 As bananas emit small amounts of gamma radiatio...
5410 (Physics) If a marble and a bowling ball were p...
5144 Can pi be expressed rationally in a non base 10...
2016, September
15890 If I put a flashlight in space, would it propel...
12141 South Korea just got hit with a 5.4 magnitude e...
8793 I read that, on average, 3 supernovas will occu...
10203 Why can't we see all of the black dots simultan...
6787 If e=mc^2, does that mean that the sun is const...
6256 What is the earliest event there is evidence of...
6348 Why is it not possible to simply add protons, e...
6733 If identical twins have the exact same DNA, why...
5780 Why do we keep trying to find new heavy element...
5094 Since gravitational waves are real, does that m...
2016, August
11307 Is the earth pulled toward where the sun is now...
10561 In 1899 "Mile-a-Minute" Charles Murphy set a bi...
13540 What is the physiological difference between th...
9576 AskScience AMA Series: We have discovered an Ea...
12753 Assuming ducks can't count, can they keep track...
8415 If the universe is an hypertorus, is it possibl...
6972 What's going on when I'm getting a "kink in my ...
7303 Why do Cockroaches die on their backs so freque...
6954 When I hold two fingers together and look throu...
5760 If the Solar system revolves around the galaxy,...
2016, July
8928 How worried should we be about the Clathrate Gun?
7885 How do centipedes/millipedes control all of the...
7954 Can a Mars Colony be built so deep underground ...
6764 Does the craving of different foods at differen...
6050 In animals like octopuses and cuttlefish that d...
4940 If Hexagons are the Most Efficient Way to Store...
5146 What Earth microorganisms, if any, would thrive...
5832 What kind of damage could someone expect if hit...
5119 If there was a planet with the same orbit and o...
5336 I noticed Nice, France looks very tropical. It ...
2016, June
8796 What's the chance of having drunk the same wate...
10510 Do bees socialize with bees from other hives?
7270 I remember during the 90s/00s that the Ozone la...
5771 There's a massive ball of water floating in spa...
6875 AskScience AMA: I’m Professor Brian Hare, a p...
4860 Photons are massless, but yet possess some ener...
4644 When rockets launch they must have tonnes of mo...
5148 Hi Reddit, I’m Margaret Leinen, here to talk ...
4560 Does a person using a skateboard expend less en...
4529 Why is that when you subtract a number from its...
2016, May
6772 A month ago we made available publicly via the ...
7440 Is it possible for a planets moon to share an a...
6531 Why do many materials, such as rock and wood, a...
6459 How do we take pictures of our galaxy if we are...
5877 Can modern chemistry produce gold?
4960 What is the earliest song in human history that...
4840 Whats the difference between moving your arm, a...
4763 Did relativity HAVE to be discovered mathematic...
5123 Are things like peanut butter, cream cheese, je...
4631 Since radio waves and light are both forms of e...
2016, April
7462 If I have a column of water 100' tall and 2 met...
6994 How come small cuts on the anus from over wipin...
6194 Whenever I buy a lottery ticket I remind myself...
6668 What would the horizon look like if you were st...
6377 Why are the "I'm not a robot" captcha checkboxe...
5197 "Our Sun is unusually metal-rich for a star of ...
6219 If you were to drive in a car at the same speed...
4919 Why are there mountains on Mars that are much h...
5690 Why is easier to balance at bicycle while movin...
4213 Why can you rename, or change the path of, an o...
2016, March
10490 How did the Great Wall of China affect the regi...
6444 Humans have a wide range of vision issues, and ...
6392 When did "sleeping" evolve? What are the most p...
6275 How is there no center of the universe?
6436 Why can the Golden Ratio be found all over nature?
10301 Happy Pi Day everyone!
4629 In 2014 Harvard infamously claimed to have disc...
5356 If water has a boiling point of ~100 degrees C,...
4647 Maria Sharapova just got in trouble for using m...
4029 Does a spinning magnet in space eventually stop...
2016, February
19496 Gravitational Wave Megathread
7370 What's the deepest hole we could reasonably dig...
4760 If I went back to the Cretacious era to go fish...
4638 Let's say I put a steel beam 1000 feet in the a...
4413 AskScience AMA Series: I’m Dr. Julia Shaw, a ...
4235 Water solubility of caffeine, or, if I use a te...
4220 Would it be more fuel efficient and less danger...
3912 Does a laser beam cast a shadow?
3556 Could a planetary system be close enough to a n...
3628 Why do we have kneecaps, but we don't have elbo...
2016, January
8032 Is it possible to recreate a smell from a basic...
8239 Planet IX Megathread
6132 Do pet tarantulas/Lizards/Turtles actually reco...
4990 How would a bee (or any flying insect) behave i...
4112 Does the gravity of everything have an infinite...
4091 How long it will take Voyager to get to Ninth P...
4012 If two ships travel at higher then 0.5C away fr...
3453 Without friction, would a ball still spin when ...
3223 What is the non-human animal process of going t...
3097 If you uniformly heated a body of water to boil...