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2017, December
17947 What determines the lifespan of a species? Why ...
21436 Why do computers and game consoles need to rest...
17755 Does a burnt piece of toast have the same numbe...
15584 If the Niagara falls is frozen where does all t...
22627 When a person gets a cut, is it better to wipe ...
15613 The last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this ...
10788 What exactly does the cold virus do to me to ma...
12429 Keep hearing that we are running out of lithium...
19505 Why do airplanes need to fly so high?
10080 Is there a limit on how long a power cord can be?
2017, November
17877 How "green" is the life cycle of a solar panel ...
21637 If light can travel freely through space, why i...
16540 With all this fuss about net neutrality, exactl...
83329 Help us fight for net neutrality!
18880 If someone was to cover their eyes for a year s...
13863 Does the brain interact with programming langua...
11421 Was the super massive black hole at the center ...
9784 I’ve read that when caterpillars are in their...
10085 Do caterpillars need to become butterflies? Cou...
8805 What is happening to engine oil that requires i...
2017, October
32071 What % of my weight am I actually lifting when ...
16408 If you placed wood in a very hot environment wi...
14746 If doctors can fit babies with prescription eye...
28678 If hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs, then w...
14902 Can an insect be “fat� How do they store e...
12848 How much of sleep is actual maintenance downtim...
14578 What are the main complications stopping us fro...
13705 Does running a mile in 10 minutes burn the same...
17448 If my 60 GB phone is full or empty, is there an...
17697 If you put a Garden in the ISS, Could you have ...
2017, September
13447 What is the gold and silver foil they put on sa...
15315 I just looked at the sun with my eclipse glasse...
13063 How much does drinking a cold drink really affe...
11434 If the sea level rises, does the altitude of ev...
9452 Megathread: 2017 Hurricane Season
13536 Do humans have a vestigial tail wagging respons...
10978 Does writing by hand have positive cognitive ef...
12101 If you were to randomly find a playing card on ...
10044 Duck fat melts at 57 degrees Fahrenheit. So on ...
10398 What is a birth mark and why do so many people ...
2017, August
19362 How will the waters actually recede from Harvey...
19976 What affect does the quantity of injuries have ...
14827 How does a computer network like HBO's handle t...
17314 Does sipping water vs 'chugging' water impact h...
15071 Why does electricity always hum at a B-flat pitch?
13551 When a banana gets bruised, does the nutritiona...
14141 How can we hear the voice in our head and how i...
10987 Do all organisms perceive the passage of time a...
8761 Can statisticians control for people lying on s...
8607 If Mars at some point had oceans that were fill...
2017, July
15560 Do animals have blood types like we do?
19260 Why is the human nose the shape it is? Why isn'...
13487 There are thousands of seemingly isolated bodie...
15192 How do women astronauts deal with periods in an...
13694 Who feels the umbilical cord being cut? Mother,...
10390 Does the human stomach digest food as a batch p...
11582 If a bottle is completely filled with water and...
11092 Why do you not feel hungry after not eating for...
11292 Has the growing % of the population avoiding me...
9794 If humans have evolved to have hair on their he...
2017, June
27216 Does the size of a creature, or the size of its...
22317 The recent fire in London was traced to an elec...
13885 When our brain begins to lose its memory, is it...
16833 We encounter static electricity all the time an...
13947 Why don't humans have mating seasons?
9688 Askscience Megathread: Climate Change
10013 What happens if you let a chess AI play itself?...
8827 In Earth travel, we use North, South, East, and...
8362 Hummingbirds flap their wings around 70 times p...
8204 Why is a frozen and thawed banana so much sweet...
2017, May
31247 What is the point of using screws with a Philli...
16253 Why does my shower curtain seem to gravitate to...
13557 How do third party headphones with volume contr...
15112 Why can't we just inject a ton of power into a ...
13258 Why do we have to kill a horse when it broke it...
21259 If each day is only 23h56m4s, over the course o...
9523 What does it feel like walking in areas with hi...
9104 If iron loses its magnetism at around 1400°F, ...
9361 Why does removing a battery and replacing the s...
10986 How come, when we rub our eyes hard enough we s...
2017, April
15455 So atmospheric CO2 levels just reached 410 ppm,...
12521 Later this year, Cassini will crash into Saturn...
11521 Why are car antennas so small now, when 10 year...
11110 How do animals like whales not get the bends wh...
8963 On average, and not including direct human inte...
8909 In light of the recent growth of sightings of T...
10143 What keeps wi-fi waves from traveling more than...
9022 What is a "zip file" or "compressed file?" How ...
11347 If my speed is 100 km/h and my destination is 1...
8431 A bluish aurora-like streak informally called "...
2017, March
32526 Do giraffes get struck by lightning more often ...
18653 The all-green picture with "red" strawberries p...
14625 When a nuclear device detonates, the shockwave ...
12571 How are we able to perform a body transplant wh...
8563 Discussion: Kurzgesagt's newest YouTube video o...
8065 Why is it matter in the Sun's core can undergo ...
10218 Could an iPod ever successfully shuffle an albu...
9236 If the universe is expanding in all directions ...
7114 Could a natural nuclear fission detonation ever...
7120 Why does the sound of cold water hitting steel ...
2017, February
15604 Are humans closer in relative size to the planc...
13756 Are there ocean deserts? Are there parts of the...
17538 Is it possible to Yo-Yo in space?
9827 Why do "campfire smells" (or other wood-burning...
9380 If an astronaut travel in a spaceship near the ...
7963 Trappist-1 Exoplanets Megathread!
9974 Why can our eyes precisely lock onto objects, b...
8495 What is the smallest amount of matter needed to...
6983 How can a Black Hole have rotation if the singu...
5615 If a black hole created from matter, and a blac...
2017, January
8960 How much radiation dose would you receive if yo...
8260 Is there a reason all the planets orbit the sun...
7259 Why does it take a million years for a photon m...
8719 If my voice sounds different to me than it does...
7429 Why do they say not to put a car battery on a c...
7766 We are Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Damien Manse...
7085 If we could use the Large Hadron Collider as a ...
6312 Is there anything the human body has three of?
5478 If elephants had gone extinct before humans cam...
5291 My six year old daughter asked after clapping h...