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"How can Rabies still exist and be as prevalent as it is, if it's lethality is 99.99% and it's disease cycle is relatively short?"
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"I use a P100 respirator to protect myself from infection, but sometimes powerfully malodorant smells (garbage full of diapers, etc) are noticeable through the mask. Does this indicate that I am at risk of infection from airborne sources, specifically corona virus?"
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"Is the Japanese surgical/dust mask trend actually helping lower the % of people getting sick over there?"
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"How do we know what dinosaurs ate exactly if only their bones were fossilized?"
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"Why do things get darker when wet?"
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"We are Professor Tim Lenton and Dr Damien Mansell from the University of Exeter and we're about to launch our free global climate change course. Ask us anything about Climate Change, from challenges to solutions!"
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"Is there a reason that the majority of Earth's landmass is in the northern hemisphere?"
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"Can mosquitos spread COVID-19?"
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"Family members are posting on Facebook that there has been no warming in the US since 2005 based on a recent NOAA report, is this accurate? If so, is there some other nuance that this data is not accounting for?"
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"How does NASA and other space agencies protect their spacecraft from being hacked and taken over by signals broadcast from hostile third parties?"
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"Why is the new COVID variant being called "Omicron" rather than "Nu"?"
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"When will the earth run out of oil?"
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"Why can't we simulate gravity?"
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"How accurate is the amount of a medicine in a pill (is 20 milligrams of Aspirin really 20 milligrams)?"
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"We're told flu viruses mutate to multiple new strains every year where we have no existing immunity, why then is it relatively rare to catch the flu multiple times in the same season?"
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"Does continental shift have any effect on man made structures like bridges and canals that connect them?"
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"Will babies who have experienced their first year of life within the pandemic see long term immune system effects?"
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"When sending robots to other planets, how do they make sure not to include Earth microorganisms?"
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"Is there really only 50-60 years of oil remaining?"
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"Why does the electron just orbit the nucleus instead of colliding and "gluing" to it?"
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"Did NASA nuke Saturn?"
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"If you had a pinhole camera with an aperture that only let one photon in at a time- what would its pictures look like?"
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"If for some reason you have a handful of feces in your hand and you wash it off with disinfectant soap but your hand still smells like feces, does that mean your hand is still contaminated?"
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"Is the brain of someone with a higher cognitive ability physically different from that of someone with lower cognitive ability?"
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"How does the body decide where to store fat?"
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"What happens to your voice if you don't speak for a very long time?"
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"If a person is allergic to domestic cats, would they also be allergic to wild cats (lions, bobcats, etc.)?"
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"Why are there so many volcanic eruptions recently? Are they somehow connected or is it a coincidence? Or is it just new media coverage?"
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"If you are 6x lighter on the moon than on earth, does that mean you can fall from a distance 6x farther than on earth without sustaining injury?"
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"How did the SARS 2002-2004 outbreak (SARS-CoV-1) end?"
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"If I donate plasma for covid 19 trial therapy could I reduce my own immunity to the virus or will my immune system just make more antibodies?"
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"Why do moles grow such long hairs?"
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"When animals leave their parents to establish their own lives, if they encounter the parents again in the wild, do they recognise each other and does this influence their behaviour?"
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"During the winter, humans are known to track animals via their footprints in the snow, as we do not posses the same olfactory capabilities as say a wolf. Are there any other animals which have been observed tracking animals by means of visual cues?"
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"Why don't we see more places like Pompeii (Vesuvius tragedy)? Why is that not a concern today for those living near volcanoes?"
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"How does masturbating "reduce the risk of prostate cancer"? Is it just a statistical correlation or is there a causal link?"
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"If implemented fully how bad would SpaceX’s Starlink constellation with 42000+ satellites be in terms of space junk and affecting astronomical observations?"
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"Is gravity weaker on the equator just because the radius is larger, or also because of a centrifugal force?"
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"What is happening inside your brain when you're trying to retrieve a very faint memory?"
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"Why do you lose consciousness in a rapid depressurization of a plane in seconds, if you can hold your breath for longer?"
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"Why do dogs tilt their heads when curious / confused?"
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"Is it possible to put my bare foot on the moon?"
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"Since the small intestine is coiled up inside the body, are they all similar in shape? Or is it completely random?"
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"How would having a fish in the ISS work?"
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"With two vaccines now approved and in use, does making a vaccine for new strains of coronavirus become easier to make?"
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"Can i condition myself so that when i recieve a certain stimuli my pupils dilate/shrink?"
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"Does a Corona virus actually look like a ball with spikes?"
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"How do birds survive the incredible cold temperatures of the polar vortex?"
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"How do we know it rains diamonds on saturn?"
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"We can't see beyond the observable universe because light from there hasn't reached us yet. But since light always moves, shouldn't that mean that "new" light is arriving at earth. This would mean that our observable universe is getting larger every day. Is this the case?"
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"If a person is paralyzed from the neck down, does that paralyzed body still react to temperature changes? Sweat and goosebumps?"
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"Does the original strain of Covid still exist in the wild or has it been completely replaced by more recent variants?"
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"Is there any truth to the idea that we're now "too clean" and we are somehow weaker for it?"
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"Do we have evidence that Omicron is "more mild" than Delta coronavirus?"
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"How do lakes deep underground maintain an ecosystem with no energy input from the Sun?"
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"If presented with a Random Number Generator that was (for all intents and purposes) truly random, how long would it take for it to be judged as without pattern and truly random?"
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"My girlfriend insists on letting her restaurant leftovers cool to room temperature before she puts them in the refrigerator. She claims it preserves the flavor better and combats food born bacteria. Is there any truth to this?"
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"How old could the average rock be, how young? Are most very old? How old? How long does it take to make an average round rock? How does it happen?"
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"Can i control the direction my wifi travels in? For e.g is there an object i can surround my router to bounce the rays in a specific direction. If so , will it even have an effect on my wifi signal strength?"
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"Can the body naturally clean fat from arteries?"
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"Measles is thought to 'reset' the immune system's memory. Do victims need to re-get childhood vaccinations, e.g. chickenpox? And if we could control it, is there some good purpose to which medical science could put this 'ability' of the measles virus?"
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"Are there any predators that hunt for sport rather than for food?"
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"If a rectangular magnetic "plate" has an object hovering over it, and I pick up the plate, do I feel the weight of both or only the magnet plate?"
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"Can we accelerate in space with the power of a flashlight and if yes - how fast?"
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"As someone gets more obese, do their actual skin cells stretch or do they replicate fast enough to keep up with the increasing surface area?"
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"Solar Eclipse Megathread"
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"Historically, why did fevers used to kill so many people, but now they're a rarely fatal annoying symptom?"
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"Is it possible for a planets moon to share an atmosphere with the planet?"
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"Why do they say not to put a car battery on a concrete floor?"
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"Oat Milk bad for Reproductive Organs?"
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"Why does the flame of a cigarette lighter aid visibility in a dark room, but the flame of a blowtorch has no effect?"
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"Why can't I weigh the earth by putting a scale upside-down?"
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"What actually do they mean by the 'spin' of a particle?"
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"Wikipedia explains that String Field Theory is a part a of Quantum Field Theory while regular String Theory is not. What exactly is the difference between String Field Theory and String Theory?"
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"If Earth's mantle is liquid, does it have "tides"?"
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"How can people sever entire legs and survive the blood loss, while other people bleed out from severing just one artery in their leg?"
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"Is it possible for a computer to count to 1 googolplex?"
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"Antarctica is defined as a desert, due to lack of precipitation. So where does all the 1-3 mile thick layers of ice and snow come from?"
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"What's the deepest hole we could reasonably dig with our current level of technology? If you fell down it, how long would it take to hit the bottom?"
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"Can depression related cognitive decline be reversed?"
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"Where did all the sand in the Sahara Desert come from?"
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"Proxima Centauri, the closest star to the Sun is 4.85 billion years old, the Sun is 4.6 billion years old. If the sun will die in around 5 billion years, Proxima Centauri would be already dead by then or close to it?"
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"Why don't babies get stretch marks as they grow?"
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"Is there enough genetic material left in a loaf of bread to trace it back to the wheat plants used to make it?"
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"If inflamation is a response of our immune system, why do we suppress it? Isn't it like telling our immune system to take it down a notch?"
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"Are the terms "nuclear" and "thermonuclear" considered interchangeable when talking about things like weapons or energy generating plants or the like?"
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"Do common colds or flu strains leave permanent damage similar to what is being found with CoViD-19?"
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"Given recent developments in our understanding of water/ice bodies on Mars, is it possible that we could one day be surprised by Martian fossils? Or do we have reason to believe that Martian life would be limited to microorganisms?"
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"How did the Australian coronavirus vaccine produce HIV antibodies?"
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"Can years long chronic depression IRREVERSIBLY "damage" the brain/ reduce or eliminate the ability to viscerally feel emotions?"
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"Do men have hormonal rhythms in the way women do around periods without the coinciding biological event?"
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"Are there any resources that Earth has already run out of?"
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"I remember during the 90s/00s that the Ozone layer decaying was a consistent headline in the news. Is this still happening?"
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"How do octopi kill sharks? Do they "drown"/suffocate them? Do they snap their bones?"
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"Why does it take a million years for a photon moving at the speed of light to reach the sun's surface from its core?"
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"Why are people with poultry at home barred from working in the vaccines industry?"
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"Are we the only animal to predominantly use one arm/hand?"
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"Why do clothes feel crunchy when you air dry them, but soft out of the dryer?"
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"how do we know what the milkyway actually looks like?"
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"If telomers get shorter with every split of a cell, doesn't this mean we can pretty accurately calculate when someone will die of old age?"
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