/r/askscience - top ten submissions for each month of 2025
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askscience 2024
2025, December
2840 What is keeping the really deadly diseases, lik...
1392 Why does a candle blow out?
1206 How much oil has been extracted from the ground?
1120 Since water boils at lower temperatures at lowe...
1100 How are NSAIDs "hard" on the liver/kidneys?
1061 Why do people from the Mediterranean (Italians,...
967 Would water erode a living human?
919 Can planets exist forever or do they have a lif...
838 Is sleep induced pharmaceutically of different ...
824 Who and how made computers... Usable?
2025, November
1823 Do animals like polar bears feel cold despite t...
1333 is purring among cats a voluntary or involuntar...
1285 Why is it always boiling water?
1112 Humans need sunlight to make Vitamin D: where d...
966 How do octopi squeeze their brains through smal...
753 Is there a limit to how large a single molecule...
746 Are there any plants that "selected" humans to ...
655 Is it plausible to launch a spacecraft from a M...
652 How exactly is gas stored in soda before you op...
574 Do double-egged yolks ever produce viable young?
2025, October
604 After a blood transfer, does the other person's...
338 What type of rock would lava turn into after co...
68 Is there really no concrete answer or explanati...
2025, September
972 Infamously, smallpox was one of the diseases br...
634 When you have heartburn, why doesn't the stomac...
374 Why Are All Stars Red-Shifted, Even Though Eart...
280 How do some animals still survive by not eating...
161 How can there be clouds at different levels?
2025, August
568 [Pathology] Why is HIV only able to transfer th...
547 Recently scientists found mollusks over 5 miles...
518 Does blood alcohol concentration have an effect...
512 How are blue jays blue? Where did they get blue...
121 How stable are planets, how old do they get?
110 Do Carnivores get Alpha-Gal Disease from ticks?
89 What was the highest spatial resolution for non...
86 Why do colds and some viruses make you feel lou...
76 Why Does some species of Night-Blooming Cereus ...
49 Are picked flowers still capable of photosynthe...
2025, July
1968 Is uncooked meat actually unsafe to eat? How li...
542 Is it possible to ignite the atmosphere if the ...
276 Is a runaway greenhouse event likely, given rec...
122 Why do we need body heat?
105 Do Bacteria Naturally live in Human blood?
92 Why are chicken embryos used for the production...
83 How does the immune system react to Prions?
70 What causes the difference in water in rainfore...
46 What is it called when a caterpillar cannot suc...
44 Is artificial light after sunset unhealthy for ...
2025, June
475 Why do coral reefs only grow in warm shallow wa...
328 Atmospheric oxygen levels in the Carboniferous ...
288 How many times did two-eyed animals evolve?
216 Why can’t we divide by zero (on an arbitrary fi...
194 What happens when we say muscle strain?
180 How long through our sleep, do we start dreaming ?
147 Would 2 pounds of muscle from different animals...
66 If blood clots slower underwater, would fish he...
54 Do photons speed change with their wavelength?
2025, May
427 Does the sugar content of fruit change during r...
261 Why don't more vaccines exist?
247 Where does the water between two convergent con...
164 Do misfolded prions always eventually result in...
86 Do the shorelines of continental plates always ...
65 Ask Anything Wednesday - Biology, Chemistry, Ne...
21 How does patient 0 contract lice or other infec...
10 How do dogs and cats use their sense of smell?
0 Okay, this is a weird one: if trees release CO?...
2025, April
274 How does too much of a vitamin cause toxicity i...
259 What are the Neurological Processes that Allow ...
12 Could a planet exist entirely covered in water,...
6 Why is it the Doppler shift frequency that coun...
1 For every inch taller you are or for each extra...
2025, March
573 Where does helium go once it escapes our atmosp...
569 Since shingles and chicken pox are caused by th...
308 What makes Denisovans different from Sapiens &a...
229 I can't understand how light gets "polarised" a...
137 Ask Anything Wednesday - Engineering, Mathemati...
136 Does the sun do damage to more than our skin ce...
129 If there was a large caldera capable of VEI 6+ ...
72 Why do fans cool down a room instead of heating...
71 When a meningioma is removed, what fills the hole?
2025, February
6544 If all the cells in your body are replaced ever...
2387 Why did basically all life evolve to breathe/us...
1061 For animals like salmon and sea turtles that an...
706 Why do (some) people lose hair as they get olde...
563 Why do AI images look the way they do?
431 Why does risk of Down’s syndrome increase with ...
395 What elements can replace iron in blood and sti...
390 If you had both a viral and bacterial infection...
330 AskScience AMA Series: I am a theoretical astro...
329 Does Bird Flu affect all birds? Emus to humming...
2025, January
1509 If teeth are bones, then why if you chip a toot...
1058 AskScience AMA Series: We just discovered the b...
1050 Do species with shorter lifespans evolve faster...
1017 Is destroying a whole flock of agricultural bir...
741 Is it possible to contain light, and if so, wou...
504 Can you have several illnesses in the same time...
369 What happens to plants on a cellular level when...
324 Are Bees Affected By Capsaicin Or No?
190 Do cephalopods know what they’re doing when the...
107 Have there been any innovations in the science ...
