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"When a banana gets bruised, does the nutritional content of the bruised area change?"
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"How do third party headphones with volume control and play/pause buttons send a signal to my phone through a headphone jack?"
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"In the Tv series "Chernobyl" how realisticaly depicted are the effects of intense radiation exposure?"
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"What is the physiological difference between the tiredness that comes from too little sleep and the tiredness that comes from exertion?"
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"Is a single Elephant's skin cell bigger than a human's skin cell?"
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"There are thousands of seemingly isolated bodies of water all throughout the planet which happen to have fish in them. How did they get there if truly isolated?"
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"What does catnip actually do to cats?"
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"If you melt a magnet, what happens to the magnetism? Does the liquid metal retain the magnetism or does it go away?"
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"What is the gold and silver foil they put on satellites and why is it important?"
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"Can a venomous snake commit suicide by biting itself ?"
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"What happened with Zika, is it gone now?"
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"How can cheese be "aged" so long, but when it's in my fridge for longer than a few weeks it goes mouldy?"
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"Will social distancing make viruses other than covid-19 go extinct?"
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"With the US now withdrawn from the WHO, how badly will that affect the seasonal flu vaccine development?"
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"Why do we have to kill a horse when it broke its leg? What is the difference in biological processes between man and horse in bone mending?"
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"AskScience AMA Series: We are scientists here to discuss our breakthrough results from the Event Horizon Telescope. AUA!"
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"How are the Covid19 vaccines progressing at the moment?"
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"Why don't we just boil seawater to get freshwater? I've wondered about this for years."
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"How much better are we at treating Covid now compared to 5 months ago?"
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"How much does drinking a cold drink really affect your body temperature?"
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"Can you kill bacteria just by pressing fingers against each other? How does daily life's mechanical forces interact with microorganisms?"
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"We hear all about endangered animals, but are endangered trees a thing? Do trees go extinct as often as animals?"
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"What is the white stuff inside pimples? What it's made out of, why we have it, and why does it exit in this way?"
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"Wide hips are considered a sign of fertility and ease of birth - do we have any evidence to support this?"
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"Babies survive by eating solely a mother's milk. At what point do humans need to switch from only a mother's milk, and why? Or could an adult human theoretically survive on only a mother's milk of they had enough supply?"
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"How much of sleep is actual maintenance downtime, and how much is just time-killing energy conservation?"
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"Why do we get random thoughts of violence that we discard?"
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"Why do astronauts breathe 100% oxygen?"
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"Theoretically the efficiency of a solar panel can’t pass 31 % of output power, why ??"
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"Did the 1918 pandemic have asymptomatic carriers as the covid 19 pandemic does?"
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"The Human Genome Project cost $2.7 billion. 20 years later, it costs <$1000 to sequence the genome. Was the cost of the project fundamentally necessary for subsequent progress, or could we have "waited" for the technology to become cheaper?"
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"Assuming ducks can't count, can they keep track of all their ducklings being present? If so, how?"
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"Why do clones die so quickly?"
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"CPUs have billions of transistors in them. Can a single transistor fail and kill the CPU? Or does one dead transistor not affect the CPU?"
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"How are we able to perform a body transplant when we can't repair spinal injuries?"
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"Do bees that get lost (f.e.riding a bus) get adopted by local colonies ?"
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"Later this year, Cassini will crash into Saturn after its "Grand Finale" mission as to not contaminate Enceladus or Titan with Earth life. However, how will we overcome contamination once we send probes specifically for those moons?"
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"After the COVID vaccine is out will we still need to social distance and wear masks?"
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"If there is indeed microbial life on Venus producing phosphine gas, is it possible the microbes came from Earth and were introduced at some point during the last 80 years of sending probes?"
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"Keep hearing that we are running out of lithium, so how close are we to combining protons and electrons to form elements from the periodic table?"
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"Are there seasons in the deep ocean?"
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"Do parrots and other talking birds teach wild birds to talk when released into the wild?"
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"Why can cannabis be detected in urine weeks after use while other drug traces dissipate after days? What properties set it apart in that regard?"
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"Is not wanting to have kids becoming more common?"
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"Does a cat purr manually or automatically? Is it aware of it's own purring? Does purring have an effect on the cat?"
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"Why does hitting the top of a bottle of beer with another bottle of beer create that much froth?"
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"South Korea just got hit with a 5.4 magnitude earthquake. 3 days ago, North Korea carried out a nuclear weapons test that caused a 5.3 magnitude seismic event. Is it possible that today's earthquake is a result of the nuclear testing several days ago?"
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"As we begin covering the planet with solar panels, some energy that would normally bounce back into the atmosphere is now being absorbed. Are their any potential consequences of this?"
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"If you were to randomly find a playing card on the floor every day, how many days would it take to find a full deck?"
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"The Philae lander has successfully landed on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. AskScience Megathread."
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"When did people realize that a whip crack was breaking the sound barrier? What did people think was causing that sound before then?"
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"How do pilots know during a flight when there is turbulence coming? They turn on the fasten seat belt sign, and then it gets bumpy. The turbulence ends, and then they turn off the fasten seat belt sign."
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"Why can hormone therapy make a clitoris grow but can't make a penis grow?"
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"Does an obese person have more blood in their body than a person with a optimal body mass index?"
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"What are the most commonly accepted theories of consciousness among scientists today?"
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"How is the universe (at least) 46 billion light years across, when it has only existed for 13.8 billion years?"
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"Do any non-human animals deliberately combine foods for eating simultaneously? Do any prepare meals with more than one ingredient?"
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"Why did we go from a Delta variant of COVID straight to Lambda? What happened to Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, and Kappa?"
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"Why do we lose the desire to eat while we are sick? (Ex. when having a cold, I lose the desire to eat)"
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"The freezing point of carbon dioxide is -78.5C, while the coldest recorded air temperature on Earth has been as low as -92C, does this mean that it can/would snow carbon dioxide at these temperatures?"
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"What elements are at genuine risk of running out and what are the implications of them running out?"
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"How do dolphins sleep. If dolphins need air to breathe then how do they sleep underwater?"
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"Why does our brains tend to recall bad memories and make us in a bad mood rather than recall good memories and make us in a good mood more often?"
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"How do we know we’ve discovered a new species of human based on a single fossil, and not just a really ugly dude?"
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"When octopus/squid/cuttlefish are out of the water in some videos, are they in pain from the air? Or does their skin keep them safe for a prolonged time? Is it closer to amphibian skin than fish skin?"
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"Why can't we perform a Pancreas transplant for those with Diabetes?"
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"Wikipedia states, "The human nose is extremely sensitive to geosimin , and is able to detect it at concentrations as low as 400 parts per trillion." How does that compare to other scents?"
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"New Horizons flies by Pluto in 33 Minutes! - NASA Live Stream"
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"People having psychotic episodes often say that someone put computer chips in them - What kinds of claims were made before the invention of the microchip?"
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"What is the purpose of utilizing screws with a Phillips' head, flathead, Allen, hex, and so on rather than simply having one widespread screw compose?"
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"If a bottle is completely filled with water and I shake it. Does the water still move inside?"
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"Is the average human being closer to the size of the entire observable universe or closer to 1 planck lenght?"
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"I know there is a correlation between elevation/altitude and suicide. I moved to a place at 8000 ft 7 years ago. I now have 6 people I know that have killed themselves. I had zero before moving here (in my 40's). Why?"
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"In 'Interstellar', shouldn't the planet 'Endurance' lands on have been pulled into the blackhole 'Gargantua'?"
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"Why do cognitive abilities progressively go down the more tired you are, sometimes to the point of having your mind go "blank"?"
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"Could a single celestial body be as large as the Milky Way galaxy? If not, what is restricting the size of it?"
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"Why are car antennas so small now, when 10 years ago they were 2-3 feet tall?"
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"Do any other species besides humans bury their dead?"
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"If the sea level rises, does the altitude of everything decreases ?"
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"Was the super massive black hole at the center of the Milkyway ever anything else?"
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"What are we smelling when we open a fresh can of tennis balls?"
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"Why do certain antidepressants stop you having an orgasm or ejaculating properly?"
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"Why do Giraffes only live for 25 years but Elephants live upto 70 years even though they both share similar diets, size and live in the same parts of the world?"
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"How large does building has to be so the curvature of the earth has to be considered in its design?"
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"Are there any animal species whose gender ratio isn't close to balanced? If so, why?"
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"If my speed is 100 km/h and my destination is 100 km away and then I move 90 km/h if it's 90 km away. 80 km/h if it's 80 km away. Keep on slowing to match the distance. When will I arrive?"
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"Why do only a few languages, mostly in southern Africa, have clicking sounds? Why don't more languages have them?"
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"Of all the nuclear tests completed on American soil, in the Nevada desert, what were the effects on citizens living nearby and why have we not experienced a fallout type scenario with so many tests making the entire region uninhabitable?"
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"About 6 months ago hundreds of millions of genetically modified mosquitos were released in the Florida Keys. Is there any update on how that's going?"
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"Does dyslexia occur in blind people, for instance when reading braille text?"
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"Is lab grown meat chemically identical to the real thing? How does it differ?"
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"Since DNA degrades as we age, would a clone made with an older person's DNA sample have a shorter life expectancy than a clone made with a young person's DNA sample?"
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"Has the growing % of the population avoiding meat consumption had any impact on meat production?"
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"Is the earth pulled toward where the sun is now, or where the sun was 8 minutes ago?"
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"How did we first find out there was no oxygen in space?"
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"Why doesn't a dark chocolate bar break predictably, despite chocolate's homogeneity and deep grooves in the bar?"
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"From my kid: Can you put a marshmallow on a stick out into space and roast it with the sun?"
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"Can plants be "fat"?"
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"Are there any stars or planets that rotate so fast, they're closer to discs than spheres?"
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"If we were able to walk in a straight line ignoring the curvature of the Earth, how far would we have to walk before our feet were not touching the ground?"
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