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Why is vegetable oil viscous?

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Is it possible for a singularity to form outside a black hole?

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Water is made up of H2O. H will burn and O2 will burn. Why does water not burn?

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What is the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise?

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Who was the first scientist to study light?

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Jessia from Ontario asks

How high in the sky would Polaris the North Star be, as seen from the North Pole?

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How far is the Sun from Pluto? How long does it take for sunlight to travel to Pluto?

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Ric Martin from Houston B.C. Canada asks

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Matt from Pickering asks

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James from Hamilton asks

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Kiana Stewart from Blacksburg asks

If Virginia sees a full moon in the daytime then do places like Australia see no moon at night?

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Why is sterilizing & using alcohol effective against microorganism?

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Why has our departmental tarantula, who lives in my office, retreated into a cardboard tube and...

Denise Atkins asks

What causes asteroids to burn up once they enter earth's atmosphere?

Karen from Ottawa, Canada asks

Why do your fingernails grow a lot faster than your toenails?

Tom Henson from Bettendorf, Iowa asks

I am doing a science project on how light affects plant growth. If you could answer my 10...

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Is it true that only female bees can sting you? And if it is, why is that?

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Edward from Mississauga, ON asks

I have a wierd thinking question regarding electricity. When we have a positive charge or a...

Daniel from Singapore asks

Is there such thing as an Ice Bullet? A bullet that melts into the target so that there will be...

Michel asks

If Humans and Apes are related, why aren't we able to reproduce together?

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How do bacteria use rhodopsin to create energy?

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What are cosmic rays?

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How can an ant hold up a weight which is 50 times more heavy than ant's own weight?

Tsiadimos Nick from Athens, Greece asks

If we put a current-carrying conductor inside a magnetic field (i.e. between two permanent...

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What are giant ice meteorites? Would it be possible for them to hit the earth?

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What is the chemical composition of soya margarine?

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Why is the strawberry in yogurt flavored strawberry sometimes brown or reddish brown? Is it a...

Saurabh from New Delhi asks

Gravity can produce motion in a body. Thus, it does work. But, for doing work, energy is needed....

John Douglass asks

Hexane seeps out of the ground at old sites of underground gasoline storage tanks. Can I smell...

Abhinav from Delhi asks

Why do all planets revolve in elliptical orbits around the sun? I mean in nature there existis...

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How do mirrors work? What makes them reflect?

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How are rocks made? What are the different kinds of rocks?