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"What affect does the quantity of injuries have on healing time? For example, would a paper cut take longer to heal if I had a broken Jaw at the same time?"	askscience
"Why do airplanes need to fly so high?"	askscience
"Gravitational Wave Megathread"	askscience
"How will the waters actually recede from Harvey, and how do storms like these change the landscape? Will permanent rivers or lakes be made?"	askscience
"If a heart is a muscle, why doesn’t it ever get tired of beating but things like my arms and legs do?"	askscience
"Why is the human nose the shape it is? Why isn't it just two holes in our face?"	askscience
"If you picked a random spot in the middle of the ocean would it be teeming with life? Or are there huge dead zones with no fish around?"	askscience
"My parents told me phones and tech emit dangerous radiation, is it true?"	askscience
"If we could drain the ocean, could we breath or live on the deepest parts or would pressures, temperatures, and oxygen levels be too extreme for us to live such as high altitudes?"	askscience
"If someone was to cover their eyes for a year straight without seeing any light, would it just be really bright when they take it off then slowly adjust back to normal or would it have a permanent affect on the persons vision?"	askscience
"Ages 1 to 4 are very important for brain development but yet most people can't recall anything from that time period. Why don't we remember our earliest memories?"	askscience
"Do dogs of one breed prefer to be with their own breed over others or are they all just dogs to them?"	askscience
"The all-green picture with "red" strawberries picture. Do I see red because I know ripe strawberries are red?"	askscience
"If nuclear waste will still be radioactive for thousands of years, why is it not usable?"	askscience
"How realistic is the cancer "vaccine" talked about recently?"	askscience
"If the common cold is a type of coronavirus and we're unable to find a cure, why does the medical community have confidence we will find a vaccine for COVID-19?"	askscience
"What determines the lifespan of a species? Why do humans have such a long lifespan compared to say a housecat?"	askscience
"Since light stops penetrating water at 1000 meters deep and the deepest freshwater lake is 1642 meters deep(both according to Google), is there an equivalent to deep sea creatures for freshwater?"	askscience
"How "green" is the life cycle of a solar panel end-to-end compared to traditional energy sources?"	askscience
"Why haven’t black boxes in airplanes been engineered to have real-time streaming to a remote location yet?"	askscience
"If you put a Garden in the ISS, Could you have infinite oxygen?"	askscience
"Does a burnt piece of toast have the same number of calories as a regular piece of toast?"	askscience
"Coronavirus Megathread"	askscience
"Is it possible to Yo-Yo in space?"	askscience
"If my 60 GB phone is full or empty, is there any difference in weight at the nano level?"	askscience
"Israel has now given approximately 42% of its population one or more doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Has the vaccination program had a noticeable impact on covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths so far in Israel?"	askscience
"Do people become immune to CoVid-19 after recovering from it?"	askscience
"When someone is dying of hunger or thirst, is there a "point of no return" after which they are still alive but if they were given food or water their body would not be able to absorb it fast enough to survive?"	askscience
"Does sipping water vs 'chugging' water impact how the body processes water?"	askscience
"The Gunpowder Plot involved 36 barrels of gunpowder in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Just how big an explosion would 36 barrels of 1605 gunpowder have created, had they gone off?"	askscience
"Didn't the person who wrote world's first compiler have to, well, compile it somehow?Did he compile it at all, and if he did, how did he do that?"	askscience
"We encounter static electricity all the time and it's not shocking (sorry) because we know what's going on, but what on earth did people think was happening before we understood electricity?"	askscience
"Is there any reason for the alphabet being in the order its in?"	askscience
"Yuo're prboably albe to raed tihs setencne. Deos tihs wrok in non-alhabpet lanugaegs lkie Chneise?"	askscience
"The universe is said to be around 23% dark matter, 72% dark energy and 5% ordinary matter. If we don't know what dark matter and dark energy are, where do the percentages come from?"	askscience
"With all this fuss about net neutrality, exactly how much are we relying on America for our regular global use of the internet?"	askscience
"With people under quarantine and practicing social distancing, are we seeing a decrease in the number of people getting the flu vs. expectations?"	askscience
"When did scientists realize that Jupiter had no solid ground?"	askscience
"Why can we develop a vaccine for COVID in 8 months, but still don't have a vaccine for other viruses that are decades old?"	askscience
"If you placed wood in a very hot environment with no oxygen, would it be possible to melt wood?"	askscience
"What is the “pins and needles” feeling that happens when you cut off circulation to a part of your body?"	askscience
"Why does my shower curtain seem to gravitate towards me when I take a shower?"	askscience
"What happened to acid rain? I remember hearing lots about it in the early 90s but nothing since."	askscience
"COVID-19 started with one person getting infected and spread globally: doesn't that mean that as long as there's at least one person infected, there is always the risk of it spiking again? Even if only one person in America is infected, can't that person be the catalyst for another epidemic?"	askscience
"The earth is about 4,5 billion years old, and the universe about 14,5 billion, if life isn't special, then shouldn't we have already been contacted?"	askscience
"If I put a flashlight in space, would it propel itself forward by "shooting out" light?"	askscience
"If dividing by zero is undefined and causes so much trouble, why not define the result as a constant and build the theory around it? (Like 'i' was defined to be the sqrt of -1 and the complex numbers)"	askscience
"Is a cure for tinnitus actively being worked on by anyone? And if so, what progress has been made?"	askscience
"The last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this high the world was 3-6C warmer. So how do scientists believe we can keep warming under 2C?"	askscience
"Do animals have blood types like we do?"	askscience
"Are humans closer in relative size to the planck length or the entire observable universe?"	askscience
"If the Niagara falls is frozen where does all the water go behind it? Does it just spill over and flood surrounding land"	askscience
"Why do dogs have such extreme diversity in size, shape, and attributes when compared to cats?"	askscience
"So atmospheric CO2 levels just reached 410 ppm, first time in 3 million years it's been that high. What happened 3 million years ago?"	askscience
"I just looked at the sun with my eclipse glasses, and there are two black dots on the sun. What are those?"	askscience
"How do women astronauts deal with periods in antigravity?"	askscience
"If iron loses it's magnetism around 800 degrees C, how can the earth's core, at ~6000 degrees C, be magnetic?"	askscience
"Why can't we just inject a ton of power into a phone at once to instantly charge it? Is that just too dangerous, or just not possible?"	askscience
"Why does electricity always hum at a B-flat pitch?"	askscience
"Why do we hear about breakthroughs in cancer treatment only to never see them again?"	askscience
"Do other Great apes pee holding their penises with their hands or is that just humans?"	askscience
"Can an insect be “fat”? How do they store energy?"	askscience
"What is the bottom of the Sahara desert like? Like underneath the sand, what condition is the bedrock in?"	askscience
"How does a computer network like HBO's handle the massive output of data for short bursts of time, like a GoT episode?"	askscience
"If doctors can fit babies with prescription eye ware when they can't talk, why do they need feedback from me to do the same thing?"	askscience
"Why doesn't modern healthcare protocol include yearly full-body CAT, MRI, or PET scans to really see what COULD be wrong with ppl?"	askscience
"Numerically there have been more deaths from the common flu than from the new Corona virus, but that is because it is still contained at the moment. Just how deadly is it compared to the established influenza strains? And SARS? And the swine flu?"	askscience
"Are there crazy caves with no entrance to the surface pocketed all throughout the earth or is the earth pretty solid except for cave systems near the top?"	askscience
"When I breathe in dust, how does it eventually leave my body?"	askscience
"In HBO's Chernobyl, radiation sickness is depicted as highly contagious, able to be transmitted by brief skin-to-skin contact with a contaminated person. Is this actually how radiation works?"	askscience
"Does washing off fruits and vegetables before eating them actually remove much of the residual preservatives and/or pesticides?"	askscience
"Besides cilantro, are there any other ingredients that have been identified to taste different to people based on their genetics?"	askscience
"When in human history did we start cutting our hair?"	askscience
"I saw a video of someone breathing in a rag of chloroform and getting instantly knocked out. I don’t think that’s real, but it made me curious. How does chloroform work? And what exactly does it do?"	askscience
"Is it possible for a deck of cards to be shuffled accidentally into perfect order?"	askscience
"Can the ancient magnetic field surrounding Mars be "revived" in any way?"	askscience
"Does the sun have a solid(like) surface?"	askscience
"Africa declared that it is free of polio. Does that mean we have now eradicated polio globally?"	askscience
"If SARS-CoV (2002) and SARS-CoV-19 (aka COVID-19) are so similar (same family of virus, genetically similar, etc.), why did SARS infect around 8,000 while COVID-19 has already reached 1,000,000?"	askscience
"How can we hear the voice in our head and how is it produced?"	askscience
"If Hubble can make photos of galaxys 13.2ly away, is it ever gonna be possible to look back 13.8ly away and 'see' the big bang?"	askscience
"If a 20 year old gets an organ transplant from a 50 year old, 30 years later is that organ functioning as if it were 80 years old or 50 years old?"	askscience
"A credible SARS-NCOV vaccine manufacturer said large scale trials shows 90% efficiency. Is the vaccine ready(!)?"	askscience
"Is there really no better way to diagnose mental illness than by the person's description of what they're experiencing?"	askscience
"Does the force of ejaculation influence the probability of impregnation, or is this only determined by the swimming speed of individual sperm cells?"	askscience
"If a fever helps the body fight off infection, would artificially raising your body temperature (within reason), say with a hot bath or shower, help this process and speed your recovery?"	askscience
"Why don't humans have mating seasons?"	askscience
"How do radio stations know how many people are tuning in?"	askscience
"When our brain begins to lose its memory, is it losing the memories themselves or the ability to recall those memories?"	askscience
"How do scientists know we've only discovered 14% of all living species?"	askscience
"Does the brain interact with programming languages like it does with natural languages?"	askscience
"Theoretically, if the whole world isolates itself for a month, could the flu, it's various strains, and future mutated strains be a thing of the past? Like, can we kill two birds with one stone?"	askscience
"How do we know what Ancient Egyptian (or any ancient language) sounded like? How accurate are names like “Osiris” and “Tutankhamen” to what they actually sounded like when spoken by Ancient Egyptians?"	askscience
"Are there ocean deserts? Are there parts of the ocean that never or rarely receive rain?"	askscience
"Who feels the umbilical cord being cut? Mother, child or both?"	askscience
"Does running a mile in 10 minutes burn the same number of calories as walking a mile in 20 minutes?"	askscience
"How deep or shallow can the sand be in a desert?"	askscience
"Can fish live (or at least breathe) in liquids that are not water? For example milk"	askscience
"Regarding COVID-19 testing, if the virus is transmissible by breathing or coughing, why can’t the tests be performed by coughing into a bag or something instead of the “brain-tickling” swab?"	askscience
"How many people can one tree sufficiently make oxygen for?"	askscience

"What affect does the quantity of injuries have on healing time? For example, would a paper cut take longer to heal if I had a broken Jaw at the same time?"

askscience

"Why do airplanes need to fly so high?"

askscience

"Gravitational Wave Megathread"

askscience

"How will the waters actually recede from Harvey, and how do storms like these change the landscape? Will permanent rivers or lakes be made?"

askscience

"If a heart is a muscle, why doesn’t it ever get tired of beating but things like my arms and legs do?"

askscience

"Why is the human nose the shape it is? Why isn't it just two holes in our face?"

askscience

"If you picked a random spot in the middle of the ocean would it be teeming with life? Or are there huge dead zones with no fish around?"

askscience

"My parents told me phones and tech emit dangerous radiation, is it true?"

askscience

"If we could drain the ocean, could we breath or live on the deepest parts or would pressures, temperatures, and oxygen levels be too extreme for us to live such as high altitudes?"

askscience

"If someone was to cover their eyes for a year straight without seeing any light, would it just be really bright when they take it off then slowly adjust back to normal or would it have a permanent affect on the persons vision?"

askscience

"Ages 1 to 4 are very important for brain development but yet most people can't recall anything from that time period. Why don't we remember our earliest memories?"

askscience

"Do dogs of one breed prefer to be with their own breed over others or are they all just dogs to them?"

askscience

"The all-green picture with "red" strawberries picture. Do I see red because I know ripe strawberries are red?"

askscience

"If nuclear waste will still be radioactive for thousands of years, why is it not usable?"

askscience

"How realistic is the cancer "vaccine" talked about recently?"

askscience

"If the common cold is a type of coronavirus and we're unable to find a cure, why does the medical community have confidence we will find a vaccine for COVID-19?"

askscience

"What determines the lifespan of a species? Why do humans have such a long lifespan compared to say a housecat?"

askscience

"Since light stops penetrating water at 1000 meters deep and the deepest freshwater lake is 1642 meters deep(both according to Google), is there an equivalent to deep sea creatures for freshwater?"

askscience

"How "green" is the life cycle of a solar panel end-to-end compared to traditional energy sources?"

askscience

"Why haven’t black boxes in airplanes been engineered to have real-time streaming to a remote location yet?"

askscience

"If you put a Garden in the ISS, Could you have infinite oxygen?"

askscience

"Does a burnt piece of toast have the same number of calories as a regular piece of toast?"

askscience

"Coronavirus Megathread"

askscience

"Is it possible to Yo-Yo in space?"

askscience

"If my 60 GB phone is full or empty, is there any difference in weight at the nano level?"

askscience

"Israel has now given approximately 42% of its population one or more doses of Covid-19 vaccine. Has the vaccination program had a noticeable impact on covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths so far in Israel?"

askscience

"Do people become immune to CoVid-19 after recovering from it?"

askscience

"When someone is dying of hunger or thirst, is there a "point of no return" after which they are still alive but if they were given food or water their body would not be able to absorb it fast enough to survive?"

askscience

"Does sipping water vs 'chugging' water impact how the body processes water?"

askscience

"The Gunpowder Plot involved 36 barrels of gunpowder in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Just how big an explosion would 36 barrels of 1605 gunpowder have created, had they gone off?"

askscience

"Didn't the person who wrote world's first compiler have to, well, compile it somehow?Did he compile it at all, and if he did, how did he do that?"

askscience

"We encounter static electricity all the time and it's not shocking (sorry) because we know what's going on, but what on earth did people think was happening before we understood electricity?"

askscience

"Is there any reason for the alphabet being in the order its in?"

askscience

"Yuo're prboably albe to raed tihs setencne. Deos tihs wrok in non-alhabpet lanugaegs lkie Chneise?"

askscience

"The universe is said to be around 23% dark matter, 72% dark energy and 5% ordinary matter. If we don't know what dark matter and dark energy are, where do the percentages come from?"

askscience

"With all this fuss about net neutrality, exactly how much are we relying on America for our regular global use of the internet?"

askscience

"With people under quarantine and practicing social distancing, are we seeing a decrease in the number of people getting the flu vs. expectations?"

askscience

"When did scientists realize that Jupiter had no solid ground?"

askscience

"Why can we develop a vaccine for COVID in 8 months, but still don't have a vaccine for other viruses that are decades old?"

askscience

"If you placed wood in a very hot environment with no oxygen, would it be possible to melt wood?"

askscience

"What is the “pins and needles” feeling that happens when you cut off circulation to a part of your body?"

askscience

"Why does my shower curtain seem to gravitate towards me when I take a shower?"

askscience

"What happened to acid rain? I remember hearing lots about it in the early 90s but nothing since."

askscience

"COVID-19 started with one person getting infected and spread globally: doesn't that mean that as long as there's at least one person infected, there is always the risk of it spiking again? Even if only one person in America is infected, can't that person be the catalyst for another epidemic?"

askscience

"The earth is about 4,5 billion years old, and the universe about 14,5 billion, if life isn't special, then shouldn't we have already been contacted?"

askscience

"If I put a flashlight in space, would it propel itself forward by "shooting out" light?"

askscience

"If dividing by zero is undefined and causes so much trouble, why not define the result as a constant and build the theory around it? (Like 'i' was defined to be the sqrt of -1 and the complex numbers)"

askscience

"Is a cure for tinnitus actively being worked on by anyone? And if so, what progress has been made?"

askscience

"The last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this high the world was 3-6C warmer. So how do scientists believe we can keep warming under 2C?"

askscience

"Do animals have blood types like we do?"

askscience

"Are humans closer in relative size to the planck length or the entire observable universe?"

askscience

"If the Niagara falls is frozen where does all the water go behind it? Does it just spill over and flood surrounding land"

askscience

"Why do dogs have such extreme diversity in size, shape, and attributes when compared to cats?"

askscience

"So atmospheric CO2 levels just reached 410 ppm, first time in 3 million years it's been that high. What happened 3 million years ago?"

askscience

"I just looked at the sun with my eclipse glasses, and there are two black dots on the sun. What are those?"

askscience

"How do women astronauts deal with periods in antigravity?"

askscience

"If iron loses it's magnetism around 800 degrees C, how can the earth's core, at ~6000 degrees C, be magnetic?"

askscience

"Why can't we just inject a ton of power into a phone at once to instantly charge it? Is that just too dangerous, or just not possible?"

askscience

"Why does electricity always hum at a B-flat pitch?"

askscience

"Why do we hear about breakthroughs in cancer treatment only to never see them again?"

askscience

"Do other Great apes pee holding their penises with their hands or is that just humans?"

askscience

"Can an insect be “fat”? How do they store energy?"

askscience

"What is the bottom of the Sahara desert like? Like underneath the sand, what condition is the bedrock in?"

askscience

"How does a computer network like HBO's handle the massive output of data for short bursts of time, like a GoT episode?"

askscience

"If doctors can fit babies with prescription eye ware when they can't talk, why do they need feedback from me to do the same thing?"

askscience

"Why doesn't modern healthcare protocol include yearly full-body CAT, MRI, or PET scans to really see what COULD be wrong with ppl?"

askscience

"Numerically there have been more deaths from the common flu than from the new Corona virus, but that is because it is still contained at the moment. Just how deadly is it compared to the established influenza strains? And SARS? And the swine flu?"

askscience

"Are there crazy caves with no entrance to the surface pocketed all throughout the earth or is the earth pretty solid except for cave systems near the top?"

askscience

"When I breathe in dust, how does it eventually leave my body?"

askscience

"In HBO's Chernobyl, radiation sickness is depicted as highly contagious, able to be transmitted by brief skin-to-skin contact with a contaminated person. Is this actually how radiation works?"

askscience

"Does washing off fruits and vegetables before eating them actually remove much of the residual preservatives and/or pesticides?"

askscience

"Besides cilantro, are there any other ingredients that have been identified to taste different to people based on their genetics?"

askscience

"When in human history did we start cutting our hair?"

askscience

"I saw a video of someone breathing in a rag of chloroform and getting instantly knocked out. I don’t think that’s real, but it made me curious. How does chloroform work? And what exactly does it do?"

askscience

"Is it possible for a deck of cards to be shuffled accidentally into perfect order?"

askscience

"Can the ancient magnetic field surrounding Mars be "revived" in any way?"

askscience

"Does the sun have a solid(like) surface?"

askscience

"Africa declared that it is free of polio. Does that mean we have now eradicated polio globally?"

askscience

"If SARS-CoV (2002) and SARS-CoV-19 (aka COVID-19) are so similar (same family of virus, genetically similar, etc.), why did SARS infect around 8,000 while COVID-19 has already reached 1,000,000?"

askscience

"How can we hear the voice in our head and how is it produced?"

askscience

"If Hubble can make photos of galaxys 13.2ly away, is it ever gonna be possible to look back 13.8ly away and 'see' the big bang?"

askscience

"If a 20 year old gets an organ transplant from a 50 year old, 30 years later is that organ functioning as if it were 80 years old or 50 years old?"

askscience

"A credible SARS-NCOV vaccine manufacturer said large scale trials shows 90% efficiency. Is the vaccine ready(!)?"

askscience

"Is there really no better way to diagnose mental illness than by the person's description of what they're experiencing?"

askscience

"Does the force of ejaculation influence the probability of impregnation, or is this only determined by the swimming speed of individual sperm cells?"

askscience

"If a fever helps the body fight off infection, would artificially raising your body temperature (within reason), say with a hot bath or shower, help this process and speed your recovery?"

askscience

"Why don't humans have mating seasons?"

askscience

"How do radio stations know how many people are tuning in?"

askscience

"When our brain begins to lose its memory, is it losing the memories themselves or the ability to recall those memories?"

askscience

"How do scientists know we've only discovered 14% of all living species?"

askscience

"Does the brain interact with programming languages like it does with natural languages?"

askscience

"Theoretically, if the whole world isolates itself for a month, could the flu, it's various strains, and future mutated strains be a thing of the past? Like, can we kill two birds with one stone?"

askscience

"How do we know what Ancient Egyptian (or any ancient language) sounded like? How accurate are names like “Osiris” and “Tutankhamen” to what they actually sounded like when spoken by Ancient Egyptians?"

askscience

"Are there ocean deserts? Are there parts of the ocean that never or rarely receive rain?"

askscience

"Who feels the umbilical cord being cut? Mother, child or both?"

askscience

"Does running a mile in 10 minutes burn the same number of calories as walking a mile in 20 minutes?"

askscience

"How deep or shallow can the sand be in a desert?"

askscience

"Can fish live (or at least breathe) in liquids that are not water? For example milk"

askscience

"Regarding COVID-19 testing, if the virus is transmissible by breathing or coughing, why can’t the tests be performed by coughing into a bag or something instead of the “brain-tickling” swab?"

askscience

"How many people can one tree sufficiently make oxygen for?"

askscience