| 172456 | Why do your ears ring? |
| 140337 | Are cats and dogs colorblind? Do cats' eyes glow in the dark? |
| 65614 | Why do men grow hair on their face, while most women don't? |
| 62064 | How can you tell if a ruby is real or fake? Is there a test I can do? |
| 60870 | Why do crystal glasses give off sound when you rub them with a wet finger? |
| 59748 | What are the effects of sleep deprivation on the human body? |
| 59681 | Does sugar make you hyper if you eat a lot of it? |
| 56428 | Why does squinting help people with vision problems see better? |
| 54317 | Can you turn gas into a solid form? |
| 52907 | How do relaxers on your hair work? |
| 50410 | I heard that peppermint candy will help you do better on a test. Is this true? And, is there anything in peppermint candy that will boost my scores? |
| 49847 | When diamonds are put under a black light why do some glow and some don't? Do the real ones glow or is it the fake ones that glow, or are they all real and glow differently because of things like quality clairty, shape, cut, or things like that? |
| 45883 | How many earths will fit in the sun? |
| 43674 | How are elements named? |
| 42280 | How do you grow seedless watermelons? |
| 42041 | How many dimensions are there? |
| 40915 | How can you tell if a diamond is real or fake? |
| 40829 | Is it safe to touch mercury bare handed? Are you going to be poisoned if you touch it? |
| 40479 | Why are humans born with eyes open and puppies are born with eyes closed? |
| 39973 | How does a fluorescent light bulb work? |
| 37040 | Who invented math? |
| 35818 | Why can't you put metal in a microwave? |
| 35766 | Do fish see in color? |
| 34982 | How are crystals formed? |
| 34941 | Why do crickets make noise at night? |
| 33356 | Will your skin change color if you eat enough of a colorful food? (For example, if you eat a lot of carrots, will your skin turn orange?) |
| 31844 | If humans only use 10% of their brains, what is the other 90% doing? |
| 31167 | Why is a tomato considered a fruit and not a vegetable? |
| 29904 | What causes the earth to rotate and why? |
| 29520 | How can the sun burn without oxygen in space? If there is oxygen in space why do astronauts need oxygen? |
| 29499 | Why do your bones crack when you walk up or down stairs sometimes? |
| 29169 | How do you split atoms? |
| 28976 | Isaac Newton discovered gravity, but why did he call it gravity? |
| 28872 | What if you had no white blood cells? |
| 28871 | Why do your cheeks turn red when you get embarrassed? How come when we get nervous our heart feels like it's beating faster? |
| 28490 | How is glass made? |
| 27814 | Why are robin's eggs blue? |
| 27760 | Why does your tongue get stuck to metal in the winter? |
| 27499 | How does water boil? Why are there bubbles and how does bubbling work? |
| 27053 | Why does soap make bubbles? |
| 26265 | I have a recipe to make homemade glue. The recipe asks you to heat skim milk and vinegar until the milk curdles. Then it asks to remove the liquid from the mixture and add sodium bicarbonate to the curdles. What is sodium bicarbonate and why is it an important ingredient to make the glue? |
| 26141 | Why does fruit ripen? |
| 25518 | Why are computer chips written on silicon? |
| 25292 | Why do birds bob their head when they walk? |
| 25131 | Is popping popcorn a physical or a chemical change? |
| 24705 | How do you make a man made element? |
| 24540 | Why do graphic equalizers have so many bars? I could understand 2 bars for L and R channels, but I get puzzled every time I look at one. If I took the left or right channel plug out of my receiver, would half of the bars stop moving? |
| 24373 | How does a fire hydrant work? |
| 23964 | Why do the electrons of an atom orbit around the nucleus? |
| 23874 | What makes the sun hot? |
| 23721 | Do trees have leaf "pores" where the leaves grow back every year in the same place, or do leaves grow back in different spots along a branch? |
| 23557 | Why do humans enjoy music? What is it about the brain that makes sounds translate into pleasure and other emotions? |
| 23489 | Does energy have mass? Does light have mass? |
| 23408 | How do you make a magnet? |
| 22997 | How did animals get to have rabies? |
| 22625 | How do solar energy cars work? |
| 22511 | Can humans ever see in the dark with no night vision glasses or other aids? |
| 22455 | At what magnification on a microscope can you actually see animal cells and plant cells? |
| 22054 | What is the most common type of blood? |
| 21704 | Is it possible to determine the resonance frequency of an object that has a diameter in nanometers in size (such as a cell)? |
| 21131 | How can information be sent on radio waves, etc? How can things that have no mass contain messages? |
| 21125 | How is rubber made? |
| 20984 | Does the mass of the Earth increase with the increasing population? If not, why not? |
| 20521 | How does burning gasoline make a car move? |
| 20461 | How exactly do catalysts lower the activation energy of bonds? |
| 20329 | How does sun block work? |
| 20167 | Can animals get a sunburn? |
| 20023 | What kinds of plants live on the bottom of the ocean? |
| 20013 | How does the CCD work in a digital camera? |
| 19990 | Why do we have fingernails? |
| 19844 | Water doesn't spoil, but why do some water bottles have expiration dates? |
| 19841 | How does a Van De Graaf generator work and what is it made from? |
| 19681 | Do evergreen trees give off oxygen all year round? |
| 19657 | Why is the center of the earth hot? |
| 19655 | Why does the sun have black spots? |
| 19433 | How does your body move? Does the brain send it messages? |
| 19413 | What is ceramic made of? |
| 19412 | Does every one in the world have cancer cells in their body? |
| 18869 | How many atoms are in a grain of sand? |
| 18770 | Will a candle burn in a space ship where everything is weightless? |
| 18760 | Do flies have hearts? |
| 18706 | How is ink made? |
| 18674 | If hydrogen and oxygen are both flammable why doesn't water burn? |
| 18486 | How do dreams and nightmares occur? Why do we sometimes remember our dreams, and other times we do not remember? Do we dream every night? |
| 18091 | What chemical properties, if any, makes things sticky? |
| 18056 | Where does static electricity come from? How does it get in my cat's fur? Why is it worse in winter? How do dryer sheets get static out of clothes? |
| 17903 | How do people think? What are memories stored as? Where is it stored? How is it recalled? How can I have independent thinking? |
| 17899 | Why does salt melt snow? |
| 17779 | Why does skin wrinkle and what causes it as you get older? |
| 17665 | Why don't birds' legs get frostbite? Because they are not covered with feathers, they could get frozen, couldn't they? |
| 17576 | Why does the wind blow? |
| 17265 | How do butterflies fly? |
| 17255 | What evidence do we have that continents were connected? |
| 17182 | How do we know how old the earth is? |
| 16893 | Why can birds fly but penguins can't? |
| 16824 | How does Aspirin work? |
| 16778 | Why do cats' eyes glow in the dark? |
| 16746 | How does sonar work? |
| 16666 | Why does oil float above water? |
| 16594 | Is sinking sand real or myth? If real, please explain how it works. |
| 16588 | Why does the moon rise and set in a few hours some nights and on other nights, the moon will rise at early darkness and still be in the sky the next morning? |
| 16551 | What material is flame made of? |
| 16439 | Why do dolphins live in the water when they are mammals? |
| 16230 | Why are there different colors to lightning? |
| 16195 | Why do babies get their parents features? |
| 16047 | How does the desalination of water work? |
| 15957 | How do underwater flares and torches work, when water puts out fires? |
| 15916 | Why do bees sting? |
| 15819 | How many species of bats are there? Why do bats live in caves? How big do bats get? Do bats go underwater? How long do bats live? Do bats mate and give birth while flying or hanging? |
| 15776 | Why does water boil at a lower temperature in Denver (higher altitude) than in New York? |
| 15709 | Why can't we hold our breath like the whales? |
| 15589 | Why do different balls bounce differently? |
| 15569 | Why are combustion reactions exothermic (why is fire hot)? What makes these reactions produce heat the way they do? |
| 15557 | How do MRI's work? What are all the ticking and banging noises? |
| 15526 | Why are cats so flexible? |
| 15476 | Why is it normal to move your arms when you walk or run? |
| 15469 | Why is it that when you burn a contained candle the wax disappears? Does it evaporate? What is the chemical reaction? |
| 15469 | How do chameleons/anoles change colors? |
| 15426 | Why do ships float? Why don't ships sink? |
| 15120 | Why do people get seasick or carsick? |
| 15109 | How many types of rocks are there throughout the world? |
| 14896 | What is fire? Does it have mass? |
| 14873 | Where does liquid nitrogen come from and how is it made? |
| 14661 | How does a glow-stick work and how come neon glows? |
| 14626 | How are dryer sheets manufactured? |
| 14606 | What is color? I know that objects absorb some colors and reflect others. But why do objects absorb or reflect certain colors? What do you add to something to make it reflect a color? |
| 14495 | How does a copy machine work? |
| 14398 | How come we have two eyes but see only one of everything? |
| 14295 | How do they compress oxygen into pure oxygen tanks? |
| 14281 | Where does the salt in the sea come from? |
| 14113 | Can only water evaporate or can other liquids? |
| 13872 | How long does it take for the so-called biodegradable plastic cutlery that is now on the market to decompose? What is the energy cost to produce it in the first place? Are they truly an environmentally responsible product? |
| 13703 | Is a venus flytrap a producer or a consumer? |
| 13543 | After mixing 1oz of cornstarch and some water together, why does it get hard when pressure is applied? And then when the pressure is released, the mixture becomes drippy? |
| 13421 | Can fire stay lit in space? For example, when a rocket takes off into space, there is fire coming out of the engines, but while in space is there still fire coming out of the engine? If not, how does the rocket get propelled without the force of the engine fire? |
| 13303 | Why do some dogs eyes reflect red instead of yellow and does this have anything to do with their coat type? |
| 13292 | What makes Band-Aids sticky? |
| 13209 | Why is grass green? |
| 13132 | Where have most dinosaur bones been found? Where have the most dinosaur eggs been found? |
| 12924 | Can candle wax become a gas? |
| 12853 | What is the lowest recorded manmade vacuum? What is the lowest recorded natural vacuum? With known physical restraints of the universe, what is the lowest vacuum pressure in theory? Is is possible for low pressures to break...chemical, atomic, particle bonds/interactions? If so, can you give examples at each level? |
| 12781 | How many rocks are there on Earth? |
| 12748 | Does the moon have earthquakes/moonquakes? |
| 12730 | Why is element 43 made by man and none of the elements around it are? |
| 12682 | Why does the gravitational pull of the moon control the tides of the sea? |
| 12611 | Why do computers freeze up? |
| 12522 | Why is the planet Mars red? |
| 12508 | Why does light travel slower in different materials (glass, water, etc.)? Also, how have scientists slowed light to "walking speeds"? |
| 12449 | Why do baseball bats sting you when you hit a baseball? |
| 12434 | How do you jam a radio broadcast? |
| 12372 | How does a lens bend light to focus on a point? |
| 12347 | I know that water can put out a fire. What does liquid nitrogen do to a fire? |
| 12206 | How hot is it at the earth's core? Does the heat affect our temperature? |
| 12155 | Why, when you breathe in helium, does your voice change? |
| 12086 | What makes the weather change? |
| 12062 | Why does the earth have more water than land? |
| 12061 | Can a cellular phone work in space? How far into space can you go without losing communication? |
| 12046 | How do scientists know what the Earth's inner core is made up of? |
| 12010 | Is a horse's leg bone bigger than a human leg bone? If so, when a horse's bone breaks why is it so much harder to heal? |
| 11993 | Why is it generally colder at higher elevations? |
| 11979 | If icebergs are made of fresh water, why don't they melt in the salt water of the ocean? |
| 11883 | How does light travel though space if atoms aren't close together? |
| 11867 | Why are evergreen trees green all year round? |
| 11818 | Why do coals appear 'red hot' in a fire and is this the hottest spot in a fire? |
| 11815 | What is lightning and what makes thunder rumble? |
| 11730 | If the electrons are attracted to the protons, why don't they come crashing into the nucleus? |
| 11710 | Are there any nontoxic ingestible fluorescent materials? |
| 11710 | What shape are stars? |
| 11645 | How exactly are nocturnal animals able to see in the dark? |
| 11608 | Why do baby fawns have spots? |
| 11606 | How is it that no matter where a person stands on earth they are always upright? Why aren't people in Antarctica upside down? |
| 11599 | Does temperature effect the speed of light? |
| 11598 | Does the moon have lithospheric plates? Do other planets have distinct layers such as the inner core, outer core, and mantle, like the earth does? |
| 11591 | Since there is no air on the moon, why is the United States flag waving around when you see footage of man on the moon? |
| 11567 | Can the human eye be compared to a computer monitor? Does the view we see refresh itself or is it more like live feed? If something was moving too quickly, would it appear jumpy like a low frames/second? |
| 11563 | If plastic is made to be biodegradable, then won't the plastic forks and spoons we use dissolve in our mouth? |
| 11516 | Is it possible to use electrolysis or another method to separate NaCl into sodium and free floating chlorine gas? |
| 11483 | From what metals are electromagnets made? |
| 11456 | Why don't you see two things if you have two eyes? |
| 11454 | What is anti-matter? Does it exist naturally? Does it look and feel like regular matter? How do scientists make anti-matter? |
| 11444 | What happens at the edge of a diamond? How does the carbon end? |
| 11426 | What would happen if I dyed water green with food coloring, then put it in a humidifier? I was going to do it but my mom made me stop at the last second. |
| 11419 | How do you make a laser? |
| 11415 | What is the volume of water in a gallon of ice? |
| 11351 | How do bugs stick to the wall? |
| 11330 | What would happen if a tornado started in the southern hemisphere and progressed into the northern hemisphere? Would it change directions? |
| 11310 | Why do chameleons change color? |
| 11291 | Why or how can some animals make a limb for themselves? |
| 11258 | Is carbon dating an effective way of finding how old something is? |
| 11243 | Why do people get that weird feeling in their stomachs when they go down a hill or ride a rollercoaster? |
| 11233 | Why is there zero gravity in space? |
| 11155 | How do minerals and nutrients form? Why do some foods have metals in them? |
| 11125 | Why does a cow have so many stomachs? |
| 11118 | Why is carbon the building block of matter? |
| 11023 | Why do cats shed all year round even on the coldest days? |
| 10976 | What causes a tidal wave? |
| 10887 | How are electromagnets used in simple telephones? |
| 10834 | If fire needs air to breathe and the sun is a ball of fire, how does the sun stay lit if there is no air in space? |
| 10827 | Do photons have mass? If not, then how does gravity affect light (i.e. Black holes)? |
| 10730 | How come there is no thunder and lightning in the winter time? |
| 10702 | Have nanobots already been created? What are nanobots made out of? Are they decomposable or will they just build up? What do they use for a power source? |
| 10664 | How are marshmallows made? |
| 10570 | Why does the earth behave like a magnet? |
| 10567 | My dad just got some new tennis shoes with that reflective stuff on them. What is the difference between those reflective stickers and the glow in the dark stars over my bed? |
| 10557 | Is AIDS the only incurable disease? |
| 10451 | What is spontaneous combustion? Is it a myth? What causes it? |
| 10420 | Why do boomerangs come back when you throw them? |
| 10347 | How can electricity run things? |
| 10341 | How do new materials that are used in swimming suits work and where do they come from? |
| 10335 | Can lava rock be heated and turned back into lava? |
| 10321 | Is jello an amorphous solid? If not, what is it? |
| 10272 | How small is the smallest thing you can see under a microscope? |
| 10257 | How efficient is photosynthesis compared to the amount of light energy delivered to the earth? |
| 10229 | How does a particle accelerator work and why is it so useful? |
| 10215 | Who determined the speed of light and how did they do it? |
| 10165 | Why is there discussion as to whether or not glass is a liquid or a solid? |
| 10107 | How will electric shocks to a plant effect its growth? |
| 10093 | How do polar bears get water in the Artic? I thought all the fresh water was frozen in the ice caps? |
| 10084 | With California blackouts and amazingly high heating costs, are alternate energy sources becoming closer to "hitting the market" than ever? If so, what are they and what are their pros and cons? |
| 9953 | How do CDs Work? |
| 9907 | Why do deer lose their rack in the winter? |
| 9905 | If there is a flash of light inside of a cube, whose walls are all mirrors on the inside will the light keep reflecting off of every wall infinitely? Or will it just go away? What will happen? |
| 9897 | How much does the population grow a minute? |
| 9826 | How can hummingbirds fly backwards? |
| 9735 | Why does a nuclear bomb create so much energy with such a small amount of mass? Why is there so much nuclear fallout with such a small amount of nuclear material in the bomb? |
| 9730 | What formula or method was used to determine Avogadro's number? |
| 9709 | How come ice skates slide over ice so easily when hydrogen bonds usually make things stick? |
| 9647 | Why do dogs have padded feet? |
| 9641 | How do you clone plants? |
| 9611 | Why does the sky turn red or orange when the sunsets? Why does it turn grey during a storm? |
| 9550 | How do you clean bones you would like to use in a display? |
| 9505 | What are quasars, what causes them to be formed? |
| 9476 | Why do they say there are two sides of your brain? |
| 9450 | Where do tornadoes come from? |
| 9449 | If you take a substance like water and were able to get it to absolute zero, where supposedly the molecules would cease to move, and then you reheated it, would the molecules recover and start to move again? |
| 9426 | Why do turtles have shells? |
| 9426 | Why does motor oil prevent paint from drying? |
| 9404 | What makes spider silk so strong? |
| 9365 | How do we get cavities from candy and why do our teeth turn gray/blackish? |
| 9316 | Why can't we swallow our food whole like snakes? |
| 9310 | How do airplanes fly? |
| 9290 | How many other galaxies do we know of? Do we have the materials to make a spaceship to reach another galaxy? |
| 9287 | Why can't fish breathe on land? |
| 9277 | What happens if you go into space with a regular plane? Do you explode? |
| 9276 | Why does rain fall in drops rather than gush down? |
| 9269 | How many different kinds of dinosaurs are there? |
| 9254 | If you could drill a tunnel all the way through the earth and dropped a rock in it, what would happen? |
| 9212 | Why do we get a shock from electricity? |
| 9160 | How does a sociologist apply the scientific method in the study of sociology? |
| 9126 | Is a snail faster or slower than a slug? |
| 9122 | How are carbon nanotubes formed? Can they be positioned easily? How? |
| 9091 | What color is Saturn, and are there planets in other galaxies? |
| 9064 | Why are eyeballs wet? |
| 9037 | How do scientists detect and measure seismic waves? |
| 9018 | What about the atomic structure of a substance determines its color and/or luster? |
| 8995 | Why has no one been able to cultivate truffles? What separates them from other fungi? |
| 8978 | How would gravity function if the earth were a torus? |
| 8967 | It has been said that man cannot produce a perfect sphere. How can that be said if we have nothing perfectly spherical as a reference to begin with? |
| 8941 | How do fuel cells work? |
| 8929 | How are the colors in a rainbow made? |
| 8898 | How are simple machines used in doorknobs? |
| 8890 | Recycled metal looks like the same color as non-recycled metal. When soda cans are recycled, what happened to the paint or dye that was on top of the aluminum? |
| 8841 | How does a firefly make its light? |
| 8840 | Can there be hummingbirds in Croatia? |
| 8836 | What causes the electron within an atom to emit photon packets? We were told to make a diagram of it. What causes the electron to skip down a level and emit photons? |
| 8833 | Why does each snowflake have a different shape? |
| 8778 | Can we ever make nuclear powered cars in the future? |
| 8769 | How do they put the flavor in candy? |
| 8756 | When I place a straw in a glass of soda, the part of the straw in the water appears bigger and also seems bent as I look down into the cup. Why does it look bigger and why does it appear to bend upon entering the water? |
| 8744 | If light has no mass, why is it affected by gravity?
I read that light can not escape a black hole because of the gravitational pull and that light from distant stars bends around our sun's gravitational field, making it appear that they are in a different direction from Earth than they actually are. I also read that light is massless, and that gravitational force is a function of mass. These seem inconsistent. |
| 8649 | Why is vegetable oil able to be used as a power source for automobiles? |
| 8648 | What is a mole? |
| 8646 | How do microwave ovens work? |
| 8594 | When hydrogen explodes and combines with oxygen, where does the energy that is released in the explosion come from? |
| 8592 | How does the moon cause tides and how is it that when it is high tide in one place it can also be high tide on the other side of the world? |
| 8582 | Why do drops of water cling to glass? |
| 8544 | What is the highest microscope power on an electron microscope? |
| 8541 | How does gravity work? |
| 8465 | Why are some dishes safe to put in the oven, microwave, and dishwasher, but others aren't? |
| 8460 | What was the gas mileage for the earliest cars made? |
| 8451 | When a water surface reflects something (when looking from the top), does it undergo total internal reflection? |
| 8443 | How does wind affect waves? |
| 8406 | Does magnetism work in space? |
| 8402 | If solids, like glass and ice, are made of tightly packed molecules, how can we see through them? |
| 8385 | What was the longest time a tornado touched the earth and when was it? |
| 8376 | What are Saturn's rings made of? |
| 8371 | I know that a TV screen is made up of lots of blue, green and red dots, so why does the light coming out of it look blue from a distance? |
| 8365 | Can one of the professors write about some of the bacteria that are becoming immune to antibiotics? We are concerned when they are putting antibiotics in some meats now, and talking about antibacterial soaps having an effect on the immunity. |
| 8350 | What happens to a hydrogen atom after it has come in contact with a flame - I know it "pops" but what happens to the actual atom - does it remain as a hydrogen atom? Does it form a new atom or compund or is it annihilated? |
| 8274 | What does a flying fish do to fly? |
| 8226 | How do you find dinosaur bones? |
| 8202 | Where does the chlorine from pools go when the water evaporates? Does this harm the ozone? |
| 8179 | What is the lowest temperature possible? |
| 8162 | How does CGI (like in the Matrix and the Hulk) work? |
| 8155 | What is it about the human eye that limits the types of wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum that can be seen as visible light? Why are other animals capable of interpreting infrared waves as well? |
| 8127 | What causes a heat sensitive material, such as a mood ring, to change color when it's temperate is altered? What is this material made of, and where else might it be used? |
| 8121 | Why do frogs or certain frogs have to stay in the water? I know its their habitat but why can't they leave and stay on land? |
| 8104 | How is the equation E=mc2 carried out physically? |
| 8089 | How come deserts have sand instead of dirt and soil? |
| 8085 | Is time travel possible? |
| 8072 | How many active volcanoes are there in the world? |
| 8070 | When is dry ice a fluid? |
| 8028 | What are MEMS and why are they an important scientific break through? |
| 8014 | If light travels in a straight line, why is lightning crooked? |
| 7979 | How are submarines able to go down so deep under the water, and then surface? |
| 7938 | How accurate is the VSEPR model of molecular geometry for predicting the shapes of large, complex molecules? |
| 7934 | How do scientists know there are such things as atoms? |
| 7921 | Why doesn't it rain inside a house? |
| 7889 | Why is the sky blue? |
| 7851 | What is nanotechnology used for? Why do scientists study it? |
| 7823 | Why is it you can see lightning as it goes through the air, but not a laser beam? |
| 7800 | What is a Green Flash? |
| 7799 | Apparently Romer measured the speed of light due to a delay in the satellite of Jupiters orbits. But how did he measure it - he must have had a succession of measurements over say 1 year, yet been able to time very accurately the advance or retard. How did he do this since he didn't have an accurate pendulum clock. ie what was his actual experimental method - nowhere can I find a good description. |
| 7730 | Why is space black? |
| 7712 | What is Jupiter made of? |
| 7710 | Why do trees get new rings every year? |
| 7701 | There are many types of dwarf stars, what are they and what makes them different? |
| 7696 | Is it possible to snow at any temperature below 32 degrees Fahrenheit? Is it ever possible for it to be too cold to snow? |
| 7671 | How big is the universe and how did we figure it out? Where has the farthest telescope seen? How far have people sent the furthest satellite? |
| 7659 | How do some flowers respond to stimuli such as light? |
| 7656 | Why do stars twinkle? |
| 7606 | How did people find out a day is 24 hours? |
| 7593 | Why does my milkshake stay thick even when it warms up? Shouldn't it get thinner as it melts? |
| 7581 | Why do stars form pictures? |
| 7566 | Why is it that when I hold a stick over a fire it ignites without touching the coals? |
| 7565 | Are there rainbows when it snows? |
| 7563 | How does RADAR work? |
| 7561 | Why don't sharks have bones? |
| 7549 | Why is a mirror left-right reversed, and not up-down backwards? |
| 7536 | How do you make a rock into a metal or a crystal? |
| 7532 | How do freshwater snails osmoregulate? I ask because I have been wondering why there are no freshwater squid. They would be a great fit for the estuaries. Please tell me how freshwater snails osmoregulate. |
| 7532 | What happens at the absolute speed of zero? The earth is moving at some speed, the galaxy is moving at some speed. If you could stop all direction and speed, what would happen? |
| 7518 | What causes certain sounds to be unique even though they are on the same frequency? |
| 7490 | Is being a scientist fun? How is it fun? |
| 7463 | How do engines start? |
| 7443 | What allows me to use my own voice inside my head to talk to myself? Like when you do math inside your head. How do we hear ourselves? With our brain? |
| 7416 | What causes lightning? |
| 7403 | How do magnets work? |
| 7370 | I've heard that due to the massive amount of empty space in and between atoms, people could walk through a brick wall. How true is this from a scientific point of view? |
| 7363 | What causes the Earth to rotate? |
| 7356 | Is the ozone layer affecting our seasons? How? |
| 7308 | What is Vitamin A and what does it do? Also, what kinds of elements are in Vitamin A? |
| 7281 | How can a black hole suck things up if it doesn't really occupy any space? How do we know that space doesn't just end? |
| 7276 | What would happen if I touched a cloud? |
| 7264 | If an archeologist found a human tibia is it true that they can calculate the height of that particular person? |
| 7156 | Why can squirrels touch the telephone wires and not get electricuted? |
| 7133 | How do sea turtles find their way back to the same beach they were born on after traveling all through the sea? |
| 7112 | How do eye glasses improve a persons sight? |
| 7090 | How do scientists determine the viscosity of lava? |
| 7088 | Specifically, we have paperwork that gives different names for several of the new elements: Db for number 105 instead of Ha and Bh for number 107 instead of Ns. Do we have names for 110, 111, or beyond? What is the last one that was made? |
| 7063 | What shape can a volcano be? |
| 7052 | We were measuring water. There was some water on the table. There was water under one of the cups. We tried to pick up the cup lightly and it stuck. Why? |
| 6990 | What's the most dangerous animal in New York State? |
| 6985 | Our textbook tells us the speed of the molecules that make up the air we breathe, but the speed it gives us is faster than the speed of sound. Why don't we hear sonic booms as when an airplane breaks the sound barrier? Are the particles just too small for us to hear the booms? |
| 6967 | Why doesn't gold rust? |
| 6953 | Why do some scientists believe Pluto is not a planet? The dictionary defines a planet as "A non-luminous celestial body illuminated by light from a star, such as the sun, around which it rotates." Doesn't Pluto meet these conditions? |
| 6944 | When a hermit crab leaves its shell that is too small, does it wander around without a shell until it finds another one, or does it go around with its shell till it finds a bigger empty one? |
| 6936 | Why is gold such a soft material compared to something like iron? |
| 6916 | Why does popcorn stick to your tongue or anything else that is damp? |
| 6916 | How many scales do fish normally have? |
| 6895 | We have been introduced to Bernoulli's principle, and have done little experiments to see how moving air can have less air pressure than still or slower moving air. We can understand that it is true for water and air, but why? |
| 6893 | When was the very first dinosaur on Earth? |
| 6893 | Where does water get its strength? |
| 6861 | What was there before the "Big bang?" Why did it happen? |
| 6858 | Is there another solar system besides ours? |
| 6838 | What is the aurora borealis and why does it occur? |
| 6837 | How is mercury a liquid like substance, but it does not make anything wet? |
| 6835 | How are plastics made into useful products? |
| 6803 | What is the invasive zebra mussel doing to Cayuga Lake? Is it anything like what happened with the cichlids and nile perch in Victoria Lake? |
| 6740 | Why does the earth revolve around the sun in an oval shaped orbit not in a round orbit? |
| 6706 | What is in batteries that causes electricity? |
| 6683 | In Einstein's equation, E = mc2, he says that the energy released by an object is equal to the object's mass times
the speed of light squared. Why is the speed of light a factor in determining energy release? |
| 6666 | How do computers communicate with Chinese characters? |
| 6646 | Are there life forms (animals, insects) that live in underwater volcanoes? |
| 6641 | Why do people have stress? |
| 6597 | Why are some lights called Halogen Lights? Do they contain elements from the Halogen group? |
| 6589 | How is a language invented? |
| 6586 | Why are apes different from humans and monkeys? |
| 6542 | What is fiber optic cable and what advantages does it have over other technologies? |
| 6534 | What are hydrothermal vents? |
| 6521 | What molecular property causes certain matter to be transparent? |
| 6511 | Archeologists dig backward in history the deeper they go. Where does all this extra earth material come from and will the planet get bigger and wider as eons pass? |
| 6508 | Why is it that when I look at one side of the spoon I see my reflection right side up, and when I turn the spoon over I see my reflection upside down? |
| 6492 | I am interested in becoming a scientist. What do I need to study to pursue this interest? |
| 6488 | Can you explain the darkening of glass by irradiation? I am working with a high school chemistry teacher who would like to be able to use some old glass samples in discussions of atomic structure. Some of the glass has been turned purple through exposure to Cobalt-60. |
| 6459 | Why is plasma classified as a phase? What is its chemical make-up? How was it discovered? |
| 6432 | What is the history of coding? |
| 6394 | What would the result be if the acid in your stomach turned into a base? What effect would it have on your body? |
| 6392 | What causes lightbulbs to be so inefficient, and how is efficiency rated? |
| 6377 | Is Pluto small enough to ever drift out of orbit? |
| 6361 | Where are the crystals in the crystal radio? |
| 6343 | What makes gyroscopes in airplanes orient themselves correctly in any position? |
| 6332 | Why does glass weigh more than plastic? |
| 6330 | I understand lead was replaced by graphite in pencils. Was this because of lead's harmful effects or because of economic reasons that the lead was replaced? |
| 6308 | Why do certain events stay in your memory for a long time whereas others vanish quickly? How does you brain discriminate between them? |
| 6302 | Why are some musical instruments still made out of wood instead of using new types of materials like plastic? |
| 6298 | How do you make synthetic elements? |
| 6265 | Why are male robins more colorful than the female robins? |
| 6214 | How do you make a computer game? |
| 6191 | Why do baseballs fly farther in Coors Field in Colorado? |
| 6188 | Why does hot air go up and cold air go down? |
| 6160 | Why is the full moon bigger in some places than in others? |
| 6137 | How do you believe the Earth and the universe originated? And how is your theory proven by science? |
| 6127 | Is the Mars Rover powered solely by solar power? How long will the solar panels be able to power the rover? |
| 6118 | Why do the moon and the sun seem to change colors? |
| 6113 | Does Jupiter rotate and change place with other planets (like Pluto)? |
| 6102 | How are radioisotopes used to battle cancer cells? |
| 6087 | How do mutations occur? Do they risk life? |
| 6086 | Do mountains ever fall? |
| 6079 | Why isn't the shortest day of the year the coldest? |
| 6073 | Why does the light from a sodium lamp appear orange? |
| 6071 | We've heard that bats can glide but not soar, and we've also heard that they can't glide or soar... only fly by flapping. Can you clear this up for us? (We're asking because, in the summertime when we look up, we're not always sure whether we're seeing are swallows or bats at dusk, and this would help.) |
| 6061 | How are spiders different from insects? How many species of spiders are there? How many different silks are there? |
| 6058 | What is a wormhole? |
| 6053 | In an accelerator when an electron and positron collide, for a short time they form pure energy. Where does the energy come from if energy can't be created or destroyed and where does the matter go? |
| 6045 | What is the evolutionary reason for abstract thought, art and expression? |
| 6041 | How can so much information be crammed into such a small space on a microchip? |
| 6036 | What is the chemical make up of Canola oil? |
| 6028 | Why are the small computers of today faster than the big IBM computers of the past? |
| 6022 | If you put a balloon of oxygen into liquid nitrogen what would happen to the balloon? |
| 5998 | In space, are solar panels being used for power? What about nuclear power? |
| 5996 | Why does Jupiter have a red spot? |
| 5992 | Do certain flavors actually make your mouth cooler? (Peppermint, Spearmint) |
| 5937 | How do lasers in machines work? |
| 5919 | How is it physically possible for a sneeze to efficiently clear out our sinuses? What happens during a sneeze? |
| 5842 | What is ozone and what makes it? |
| 5837 | If the mantle can rise when weight has been lifted off of it (isostasy), then why are some islands sinking into the ocean? |
| 5811 | Why is it possible for some animals to hear certain frequency pitches of sound and why others can't. What is different about their ears? |
| 5807 | How is it that when powder is applied to a surface fingerprints appear? |
| 5798 | What affect will the new "gene-altered" foods have on us? |
| 5780 | What is the string theory in Physics? |
| 5740 | Why is the sky a blaze of color during sunset in Arizona? |
| 5733 | Why do migrating birds fly in that particular formation? |
| 5733 | What would cool down faster and turn to ice quicker: hot water in the freezer or cold water in the freezer? |
| 5722 | How does two-photon microscopy work? How do the resonance patterns create a photon with half the wavelength of the parent photons? |
| 5704 | What is the smallest amount of a substance that can still have color? |
| 5697 | The laws of thermodynamics teach that things in nature go from order to disorder but the theory of evolution teaches that well ordered creatures evolved from disordered ones. How can both be true? |
| 5659 | How do they measure how far away stars are? |
| 5637 | What are clouds made of? |
| 5629 | What is a x-ray? |
| 5629 | Why does wood turn to ashes in my fireplace? |
| 5611 | How does a microphone work? |
| 5585 | I would like to know why is it that most people like to finish off a meal with something sweet? Or is it just natural to balance savory and sweet? If so, why not the other way around? Is it purely from the gastronomic angle or that's the way our senses and palate are built? |
| 5562 | In biology, do you study about birds and find out what they eat and where they live and where they migrate? |
| 5545 | If water evaporates, then why do we have lakes, ponds, and oceans? |
| 5533 | If radioactive elements are getting converted into half in each of their successive half lives, then are radioactive elements going to disappear from universe after certain amount of time? |
| 5496 | Why is it that when fruit ripens, it gets sweeter than when it's picked? Is there more sugar in it? |
| 5491 | How do speakers produce more than one sound at a time (example: guitar and vocal)? |
| 5456 | Why do we have nightmares/night terrors? How long do they normally last? |
| 5388 | Why do chinese water deer have canine teeth? |
| 5364 | What is dark matter and what kind of gravitational effects does it have on the cosmos? |
| 5357 | If fog is really just low clouds, why don't they appear billowy and poofy like clouds in the sky do? |
| 5331 | In 1987, there was a supernova which was detected on earth by a burst of neutrinos and also by a flash of light coming from the exploding star. Einstein's relativity principle mandates that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, so the light and the neutrinos should have reached earth at the same time. But instead, the neutrinos arrived first, followed 6 hours later by the light. What is the explanation of this? Does it mean that Einstein was wrong? |
| 5326 | Is it possible that there is an asteroid bound for earth? |
| 5296 | What kinds of plants are poisonous? |
| 5296 | What is the exact use of the International Space Station? How long is it going to take to build? How does it work? |
| 5280 | What are mirages? |
| 5269 | What is blood made out of? If you wanted to make blood, what ingredients would you need? |
| 5222 | How come when you are riding in a bus, car, plane, or train, you don't feel like you are moving? You can move about the same as if you are on the ground. |
| 5214 | Can you find vitamins in the ground? |
| 5206 | We learned that plastics are being used as lights. Can any other ordinary products be developed in the same way? |
| 5199 | What types of body chemicals are involved in depression? Has anyone done research on a possible connection between negative blood types and depression? |
| 5176 | Do things rust in outer space? |
| 5164 | How do mutations occur? Do they risk life? |
| 5132 | What fuel will be used in future interstellar rockets? |
| 5110 | Why is a dandelion stem like a straw (hollow)? |
| 5087 | What known effect does radar and mobile phone towers have on racing pigeons capabilities to home? |
| 5083 | Is it possible to raise a cloned limb from the body? |
| 5075 | How do spaceships work? |
| 5057 | Can you genetically change organisms like bacteria to eat garbage? |
| 5047 | Do Praying Mantis' eat animals bigger than themselves? |
| 4954 | If someone would dig a huge hole and fill it in with water so that it was a lake, in 1,000 years would the lake have fish in it? |
| 4948 | I've heard of the expression "once in a blue moon" and I was wondering what is a blue moon and what is the significance in this saying? |
| 4914 | I was under the impression that viscosity of a fluid, particularly motor oil, increases as heat is applied. What is viscosity and does it have a positive or negative temperature coefficient? |
| 4908 | How can we manage our natural resources? Will they run out? |
| 4893 | Does gravity get stronger nearer to the ground? If so by how much? |
| 4868 | How does a mass spectrometer separate isotopes? |
| 4854 | How do you grow taller? |
| 4842 | How does the atomic clock work? I know it has something to do with the element cesium, but how does it "know" the "right" time to the exact second? |
| 4817 | What are the possibilities that there is another form of life in the universe? |
| 4812 | Is it imaginable that an AIDS vaccine will be developed? |
| 4767 | What exactly is radiation and why is it harmful? What can it do to you? How is it made? |
| 4754 | Can you take a migratory bird and magnetize the compass paricles in its head so it can't tell where it's going? |
| 4745 | I have heard of ways to get energy through the braking of a car. How does this work? |
| 4738 | Why don't explorers go to planets other than the moon? |
| 4706 | Does the universe have an edge? |
| 4700 | How do wings on birds make them fly? |
| 4694 | Is the human eye like a fingerprint? Can it be used for positive identification purposes? |
| 4682 | If we had to leave earth, what would be the best planet to move to? Which one would be most like Earth? |
| 4664 | What is a black hole and why does it suck in objects in space? |
| 4644 | If an object passes in front of a projector/point-source of light that illuminates a screen far away, it will cast a shadow on the screen. Now, if the object moves fast enough, and/or if the screen is far enough, the shadow will move much faster than the object, and at a certain speed of the object, the shadow will move faster than the speed of light. What would a bystander, or a camera, see? |
| 4629 | What are electromagnets and what metals are included? |
| 4607 | Why do some bugs jump? |
| 4578 | How do people think of the words we say? |
| 4539 | Why does the color of tree leaves change? |
| 4522 | How do people know how to make electricity? |
| 4506 | How is hail produced? |
| 4503 | Have you or will you ever try to weigh a red blood cell? If so, how would you? |
| 4490 | What exactly are isotopes? I know that an element with different proton and neutrons is an isotope. So would it mean that (for example) Barium is an isotope but Aluminum is not? |
| 4473 | How does a bumble bee know which flower it's already been to? |
| 4467 | What further advances have scientists at Cornell made in the study of GMO's? |
| 4449 | Won't the non-use of chlorofluro-carbon (CFC's) do more harm than good? |
| 4398 | Why is the pressure required for a bicycle tire so much higher than the pressure for a car tire? How come the much smaller bike tire does not explode when filled with such high pressure? |
| 4398 | How is the milky way different from other galaxies? |
| 4395 | How did scientists get the idea for light years? |
| 4323 | What kinds of elements are found in the oldest rocks? |
| 4288 | How does the wind blow? |
| 4269 | What are computers going to look like in the future? |
| 4249 | Why are dipole-dipole and London-Dispersion Forces so much weaker than hydron bonds? Why are intermolecular forces weaker than atomic bonds? |
| 4215 | How does energy that is released as heat get reused? |
| 4176 | I am currently studying electronics and how they work together to perform work. But I seem to get confused when the term "ground" is used. I understand that it is a "zero" reference point, and that it is a common return path for electrons to earth ground. I get stumped though when I see a schematic that has a ground attached to the negative end of a battery terminal in a dc circuit. Why don't the electrons just flow straight to ground? Then in an AC circuit schematic, I see a ground connection again connected to the negative side of a circuit. Can I assume that the ground is positively polarized which attracts the electrons? |
| 4154 | In an empty charged sphere, even though the charge is evenly distributed on the surface, why does it behave as if it is all in the center? (The same as gravity) |
| 4130 | What is the difference between fuels (Diesel, unleaded, etc.)? |
| 4100 | When a star is dying and increases greatly in size, is it because the gravitational pull from the star cannot overcome the pressure of the gasses that make up the star to begin with? |
| 4076 | Can you create protons? And if not, where did the hydrogen nuclei required to form a star come from? |
| 4069 | If a person stands on a circular rotating stand, facing away from the centre with arms outstretched holding a spinning bicycle wheel and tilts the wheel to once side this causes the stand they are standing on to rotate. My questions are:
Why is this?
Does it make a difference which way the bicycle wheel is spinning?
Will the bicycle wheel's momentum be effected by the spin of the stand the person is stood on?
For the strongest anti-clockwise pull on the stand should the wheel be angled by raising the right hand and lowering the left(tilting), or pushing forward the right hand and drawing back the left (turning). |
| 4068 | When lightning flashes, does one see the plasma or the electrical charge? |
| 4042 | What is a shooting star? |
| 4012 | Why do scuba divers wear rubber? |
| 3998 | Can an infrared beam conduct an electrical current? |
| 3964 | Why are the boiling points of metals with metallic bonds so varied? |
| 3957 | Is there an accurate way to measure how much the planet earth weighs? If it's possible how much does the earth weigh ? |
| 3910 | If you burn a liter of fuel in an internal combustion engine are the emissions the same weight as the weight of the original liter, if not why? |
| 3907 | I've always been puzzled by the way celestial bodies orbiting one another tend to "line up" on a roughly two-dimensional plane. Take the Solar System, for example: in all of the illustrations or moving simulations of planetary orbits I have seen, the planets always align themselves along roughly the same horizontal axis, with only slight vertical variation in their respective orbits. Is this phenomenon of "horizontal alignment" a result of the gravity of all the planets / moons / rings kind of pulling each other together even while they are all orbiting the same sun / planet? Was there an earlier time in the history of the solar system or of individual planets where there was a greater disparity between the horizontal alignments of different orbiting bodies? Or have I just been seeing simplified illustrations that don't accurately reflect all three dimensions in which bodies orbit other celestial bodies? |
| 3891 | Now that we are all recycling, what are some of the products that are made from recycled materials that we should be buying to complete the cycle? |
| 3885 | Can you please tell me what exactly nanobiotechnology is. Also, does it have a future? Or will it greatly effect the future and will nanobiotechnology be one of the leading areas of research? |
| 3851 | If photons have no mass, and you can make an atom laser, instead of an optical one. Would it be possible to attach matter or a small machine to a beem of light and make it travel long distances at light speed? |
| 3763 | Why do solar cells produce more electricity in low temperatures? |
| 3759 | My instructor told me that the wavelength of laser light is determined by the distance between the mirrors in the laser device. I say he is not correct, it is the nature of the lasing medium itself as the molecules that make it up emit characteristic wavelenghts when excited. Which of us is correct? |
| 3757 | Why is the United States one of the few countries that is not measuring in the Metric system despite being used in cars, soda, and film? |
| 3611 | How come a lot of colors make the black found in black markers? |
| 3604 | Have we ever observed a newborn star "turn on"? Or, is the process of self-sustaining nuclear fusion so gradual that the increase in luminosity of newborn stars is not noticeable in a human lifespan? |
| 3554 | How do planets form? |
| 3546 | How long ago were fiber optics developed? |
| 3511 | Why do scuba divers wear rubber? |
| 3461 | How much progress are scientists making in finding an enzyme that will degrade plastic to something environmentally friendly that can be safely reintroduced to the earth around us? |
| 3453 | Can particle accelerators accurately simulate conditions that occured during the Big Bang? |
| 3452 | Why do scientists say Pluto should not be a planet? |
| 3328 | What are a few, most effective, things we can do to protect our body's cells from becoming cancerous? |
| 3209 | What forces make a volcano erupt? |
| 3179 | Who was the first scientist in the whole entire world. What experiment did he/she do? |
| 3081 | Why are coral reefs dying? |
| 2964 | Is the universe expanding? Why or why not? What theories have been used to prove or disprove this phenomenon? |
| 2932 | What causes a tsunami? |
| 2841 | What is heat lightning and how is it possible? Is it different from lightning during a storm? If so, how? |
| 2805 | What was the biggest shark that scientsts found in the ocean? |
| 2754 | What is nanotechnology? |
| 2725 | How is calcium measured in bone? (without using blood, as this applies to a forensic anthropological question). And, what is the procedure or method of doing so? Is there any special tools, or devices needed? |
| 528 | Why is type O blood the most abundant type when it is recessive? |
