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The natural world explained by you

00:00 Mon 29th Jan 2001 |

by Lisa Cardy

THE natural world certainly has some puzzling features and this is clear from some recent questions posed by you.

We all have them but we don't all need them Maybe their ubiquity stops us thinking about it, but not colandsuey who asked, 'Why do men have nipples ' Fortunately, henryn and surabhiss were able to set the record straight. Well do you know why If not, find out here.

And mum121 had an even more fundamental problem, what was the big bang Hotdog summed things up nicely and homer gave mum121 the chance to read up more comprehensively with the web address for The University of Berkeley in California. If it's puzzling you too, click here.

I don't know if Terry Stuart had done�his own research before asking, 'What is the average midday temperature of the Earth ' But if he had and drawn a blank then sabrinah explains why. To save yourself looking for an answer, read The AnswerBank's first, click here.

At least part of the moon is visible every night, but why do we only ever see the same side It was something most never question, but henryn obviously had; click here to find out the answer.

Norman was obviously caught up by a spiders webs apparent selective stickiness, but Imi was able to unravel the problem for him. If you don't know why a spider isn't snared by it's own silk, click here. As for poisonous spiders, mark wants to know which one is the most poisonous Both Jin and Ken_Lingard offered up answers, but they're different ones! If you know the answer put mark and the rest of us out of our misery, click here.

Well that's all for this round up, but if you've got a question to ask or answer to add, The AnswerBank want to hear it, click here.

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