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2021, December
8397 Could I, as a speaker of early 21st century Mod...
8132 From my 7 year old: Do the things in our bodies...
7741 How does NASA and other space agencies protect ...
7511 Do we have evidence that Omicron is "more mild"...
7165 When different breeds of cats reproduce indiscr...
7131 Is the original strain of covid-19 still being ...
6890 AskScience AMA Series: We're experts working on...
6263 How easy would it be to crack Nazi encrypted â€...
5575 Do individuals who appear older or younger than...
5546 Could a black hole get 'clogged' or 'bottleneck...
2021, November
10997 When eyeballs are donated by an organ donor, do...
10973 How deep is the Sahara deserts sand, and what's...
8504 Why do healthy habits usually require a lot of ...
7875 In the Seinfeld episode "The Junior Mint", Jerr...
7729 Why is the new COVID variant being called "Omic...
7214 Is it true that you get older quickly if you've...
5118 What's the dry, papery layer inside a peanut sh...
5115 How was covid in 2003 stopped?
4971 How do drugs know where to go in the body?
4930 Does the sun have tides?
2021, October
11327 About 6 months ago hundreds of millions of gene...
6016 Why is the verb for 'to be' so irregular in so ...
5044 How sure are we that nuclear fusion reactors ar...
4960 Can you be dyslexic in one language and not be ...
4784 The UK recently lost a 1GW undersea electrical ...
4166 Can the current Covid Vaccines be improved or r...
3973 Is the human immune system basically the same a...
3506 Does the total surface area of two submerged ai...
3464 What makes a high, basic pH so dangerous?
3419 If a persons brain is split into two hemisphere...
2021, September
11591 Wikipedia states, "The human nose is extremely ...
9034 Is the Chernobyl core still melting to this day?
8914 Why haven't we selected for Avocados with small...
6823 What is the Infection Fatality Rate from COVID ...
5981 If you had a frictionless rope, would you be ab...
5529 How do lungs heal after quitting smoking, espec...
5363 Is the physiological process of falling asleep ...
4967 If light is just a radio wave with a different ...
4722 Do animals that live in an area without a typic...
4235 Man has domesticated dogs and other animals for...
2021, August
11905 Why did we go from a Delta variant of COVID str...
9826 Do other monogamous animals ever "fall out of l...
9521 If an air bubble is accidentally left in a syri...
9514 How much does a covid-19 vaccine lower the chan...
9109 Is the Delta variant a result of COVID evolving...
8914 The Johnson&Johnson one-shot vaccine never seem...
6587 Is there any kind of an upper limit for how man...
6454 Why doesn’t our moon rotate, and what would h...
6193 Why can some meats (e.g beef) be eaten raw whil...
5999 Why are anti-parasitics (ie hydroxychloroquine,...
2021, July
11219 If we were able to walk in a straight line igno...
9696 Are "pressure points" in the body real or handw...
9660 Do veins grown in the same pattern in every bod...
8968 Can adrenaline actually give you the strength t...
6747 Between foam, liquid, or bar, what is the best ...
6516 Will a transplanted body part keep its original...
6387 Could Enigma code be broken today WITHOUT havin...
5811 If the coronavirus (sars-cov-2) spreads through...
5733 What was on the other side of the world when Pa...
5704 What are the oldest mostly-unchanged tools that...
2021, June
15907 The earth is about 4,5 billion years old, and t...
11699 How do we know we’ve discovered a new species...
10142 Does Mars have caves and if we discover a large...
9194 If a person has been depressed for a long time,...
8913 If Tesla was on the path of making electricity ...
7770 How can Rabies still exist and be as prevalent ...
7582 How did people manage diabetes before modern me...
6449 Ice burns make no sense to me on a molecular le...
6406 Since there isn't any resistance in space, is r...
6157 A 2 year old toddler learns about 6000 words an...
2021, May
11350 Are there any animal species whose gender ratio...
10961 In the U.S., if the polio vaccination rate was ...
10075 Would a taller person have higher chances of a ...
8530 If hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of germs, then w...
8340 If a person catches a cold and COVID-19 at the ...
7077 What causes diarrhea? Specifically why and how ...
6466 If bacteria have evolved penicillin resistance,...
6354 If you keep a metal next to a magnet long enoug...
5987 Does food that's got 'heat' but isn't from the ...
5625 AskScience AMA Series: I am a forensic anthropo...
2021, April
24351 Many of us haven’t been sick in over a year d...
10027 Has the mass use of hand sanitizer during the C...
9723 India is now experiencing double and triple mut...
8531 If Blue, Red and Yellow are the primary colors ...
8497 Any news from Tinnitus Treatment?
6994 What is up with the seahorse? It looks like nat...
6950 What research has there been into blood clots d...
6245 How do old people's chances against covid19, af...
5718 What are the actual differences between the Pfi...
5563 How do scientists actually know what material t...
2021, March
14323 Does the sun have a solid(like) surface?
10578 Scientists created a “radioactive powered dia...
8232 How do rockets burn fuel in space if there isnt...
8029 Might be very stupid so sorry in advance. But N...
7641 If you are 6x lighter on the moon than on earth...
7032 Iron is the element most attracted to magnets, ...
6973 Why do current-carrying wires have multiple thi...
5860 Why do electrical appliances always hum/buzz at...
5785 How fast do liquids flow from the stomach into ...
5549 Could the speed of light have been different in...
2021, February
11364 Why do Giraffes only live for 25 years but Elep...
8821 If you dug a hole straight down to the other si...
8739 The Mars Perseverance Rover's Parachute has an ...
8272 How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?
7702 Will babies who have experienced their first ye...
7274 Can years long chronic depression IRREVERSIBLY ...
7260 Why are people with poultry at home barred from...
6385 AskScience AMA Series: We are Bechara Choucair,...
6173 Why cannot countries mass produce their own vac...
6059 How has the flu been affected by the lack of pe...
2021, January
17411 Israel has now given approximately 42% of its p...
10213 Is it possible to have steam hot enough to star...
10135 A chicken egg is 40% calcium. How do chickens s...
9021 I've seen reports that the Pfizer coronavirus v...
8528 What happens when a person contracts COVID betw...
8384 Do animals that sleep in multiple short "naps" ...
8284 Why if I mix green and red paints in equal prop...
8041 What percentage of a human fart is produced by ...
7986 Moderna has announced that their vaccine is eff...
7584 Why don't we see more places like Pompeii (Vesu...
