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2022, December
5837 Golf balls are said to be dimpled to reduce dra...
5615 Is there a word for what the ocean is "in"?
4648 Many plastic materials are expected to last hun...
4288 Before modern medicine, one of the things peopl...
3470 Did scientists know that nuclear explosions wou...
3371 Do they replace warheads in nukes after a certa...
3147 What is a Lobster's Theoretical Maximum Size?
3081 Any truth to the notion that children can inher...
3067 AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Matt O'Dowd. AMA...
3015 Does gravity have a speed?
2022, November
5932 Why did all marine mammals evolve to have horiz...
5135 Can dead bodies get sunburned?
4288 Are all modern birds descended from the same sp...
4195 Does getting rid of mucus (coughing or nasal) h...
4180 Has weather forecasting greatly improved over t...
4096 Do hairy people have more hair follicles than l...
3812 If soil comes from dead plants, what substrate ...
3297 If vaccines work by introducing a small amount ...
3202 If freezing tissue generally damages the cells,...
3153 Can a planet have a moon the same size orbiting...
2022, October
20249 What does "The Universe is not locally real" mean?
7178 How do scientists know that 1 Billion crab went...
6284 Does the human body actually have receptors spe...
5136 NASA successfully nudged Dimorphos into a diffe...
4992 How do we know that dinosaurs didn't roar, like...
4752 If I looked completely different but my scent w...
4314 Is there any limit to the mass of an object in ...
4114 Over 7000 people survived being infected during...
3960 Why do colonies of insects such as ants or bees...
3755 AskScience AMA Series: I'm Dr. Mark Horowitz, a...
2022, September
8382 Why are tribal people acne free?
6139 How long have humans been anatomically the same...
5834 With flooding in Pakistan and droughts elsewher...
5449 Why is lung cancer so much more prevalent in th...
4941 What causes the unpleasant sensation in chest w...
4937 Is it possible to get drunk through your skin ?
4792 How do we actually know the earth is 4,5 billio...
4151 Does adding bubbles to a bath create any type o...
4122 How can we know, for example, the age of the un...
4114 When a male seahorse gives birth, it looks like...
2022, August
14758 Why doesn't modern healthcare protocol include ...
9042 If the human bodies reaction to an injury is sw...
8683 Why are European languages's words for "dog" al...
6474 Polio has been detected in London's water. Wher...
5453 As microchips get smaller and smaller, won't si...
5216 Acid rain, does it still happen? If so, why is ...
4968 Why do doctors wear green or blue colored cloth...
4864 How sensitive is an average person's sense of t...
4653 Why does coding work?
4042 What would happen if you poured a sun-sized buc...
2022, July
6862 When you "feel" the sun beating down on you, is...
6441 If a person left Earth and were to travel in a ...
5802 Why is Monkeypox affecting, "men who have sex w...
5164 How are the stages of cancer determined? Like, ...
4914 In TV shows, there are occasionally scenes in w...
4782 Do humans actually have invisible stripes?
4153 Why do we have kneecaps but no elbow caps?
4032 Why are there hydrating creams, gels etc for th...
3861 This may sound a bit silly, but how does the su...
3834 Why is the brain not damaged by impact from run...
2022, June
11497 I know there is a correlation between elevation...
11039 Dogs can smell COVID infections in patients, wi...
7809 Death Valley is 282’ below sea level. Would i...
6866 If all forms of elephant went extinct before we...
6639 Why does a woman’s risk of having a baby with...
5819 How big dogs have much shorter lifespans than s...
5268 Does early humans have any special abilities th...
4828 Why do viruses like herpes or hpv stay forever,...
4375 If I got a blood transfusion, then had a dna te...
4124 What does "the brain finishes developing at 25"...
2022, May
11004 Why is there no tick prevention for humans? You...
10319 Why can't we reproduce the sound of very old vi...
8292 Any three digit multiple of 37 is still divisib...
7503 Does the original strain of Covid still exist i...
6164 Are there any extinct animals recorded in cave ...
5422 Is there any evidence that prehistoric man suff...
5358 Does drinking lots of water prevent the negativ...
5148 Can depression affect your memory?
4847 Is licking a minor wound (such as a small cut) ...
4475 Why do genes only make up ~2% of our DNA? What ...
2022, April
7499 Is there any truth to the idea that we're now "...
5816 Before Fleming's accidental discovery of penici...
5780 Is there any proof that foods grown with organi...
5267 Do glasses improve vision over time or will vis...
5065 when astronauts use the space station's station...
5027 Do humans have a dominant kidney? A human can b...
4784 Does the brain really react to images, even if ...
4761 Do birds sing in certain "keys" consisting of s...
4388 Hubble just discovered the largest comet to dat...
4309 Does the brain undergo physiological changes wh...
2022, March
8209 I developed seasonal allergies when I was 33. H...
7871 Was there a decrease in other infectious diseas...
7799 AskScience AMA Series: We've discovered that pa...
5735 Does crying actually contribute to emotional re...
5055 How does anesthesia "tax the body"?
5021 Is it theoretically possible for someone or som...
4715 Do animals benefit from cooked food the same wa...
4640 Plenty of animals produce highly acidid fluids ...
4514 Do people with Face Blindless still experience ...
4487 How does our brain measure the age of memories?
2022, February
6290 Is the stomach basically a constant ‘vat of a...
6003 If you were to hold a strong magnet very close ...
5630 If Cheetahs were extinct, would palaeontologist...
5560 Since the placebo effect is a thing, is the rev...
4673 Do comatose people “sleep�
4363 Potentially a stupid question but does inbreedi...
3967 Why is the omicron wave *falling* so quickly in...
3866 Since the sun's upper atmosphere is hotter than...
3575 How can SmartWatches measure the blood pressure?
3354 Are dreams powered by the same parts of the bra...
2022, January
7407 Oat Milk bad for Reproductive Organs?
6606 There are lots of well-characterised genetic co...
5608 Do generations of dogs understand relation to t...
5498 Is balding accelerated by external factors like...
5434 Is the universe 13.8 billion years old everywhere?
5192 Did the Apollo missions have a plan in case the...
5149 Why do we have so many variants of flu and COVI...
4930 Is there real-world data showing boosters make ...
4825 With the Tonga Volcano happening; my son asked ...
4572 Has there been any measurable increase in Goite...
