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This great British inventor has just come up with the bladeless desktop fan. Why have we suffered for years with the old type when this new invention is said to be superior? Are there any likely flaws...
Can stem cells be extracted from animal embryos?
my friend is a nurse and one night she had to go to a morgue on entering she found that one of the bodies was looking rather happy? why was this.
Is there any reason we have to sleep 6-8 hours every night just to get over what we do in the day? That is around 1/3 of our lives!
I have several little questions for this; ~ can you lose your memory if your hit round the head with a badminton raquet? ~ would you have to have gone unconscience for you to lose part of your memory?...
I am writing an essay about the positives and negatives of wind farming. Does anybody know how much energy is produced from one wind turbine, working at full capacity, a day? And, if possible, how...
I have been challenged to use the digits 1 to 9 inclusive, in order, and the symbols plus,minus, multiply,divide, to obtain the result 200. So far, no success. Any clear thinking mathematicians out...
Does water drain anticlockwise from a bath in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern?
A billiard ball with an initial speed of 10 m/s collides elastically with two identical billiard balls whose centers are on a line perpendicular to the initial velocity and that are initially in...
I have never got on with laptops the first few i had always went wrong and i heard about electrical currents being able to interfere with devices such as this. Would this be possible or am i just a...
In going through the sound barrier a sonic boom is created ..If it were possible to go HYPERSONIC... 5 times the speed of sound, would a boom still be created?
Why does cooking foil have a shiny side and a dull side? Does it make any difference which side you place towards the food? TIA
When we take a antibiotic it kills off the bacteria in our body including the good ones that we need in our gut to breakdown the food we eat. However once the affects have worn off they reimpose...
Avagadros number is defined as the number of particles present in a 12g sample of Carbon-12 .I know that 12 is the molecular mass for carbon so likewise, can i define Avagadros number as the number of...
This question is from A level's syllabus from chapter 'Permutations and Combination' Q. In how many ways can a group of 14 people eating at a restaurant be divided between three tables seating 5, 5,...
www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6318034/Could-the-Large-Hadron-Collider-be-held-back-by-its-own-future.html
It was announced this week that a British physicist working for STL, a British company who invented Fibre Optics for transmission only 50 years ago has received the Nobel Prize. Why did it take so...
what are the side products when we oxidise ethyl benzene with KMnO4?
E = MC2....
If E = Energy
& M = Mass
What's C
( give an old man a break )
With no sarcasm thanksyou....
i want to work out my average speed on a run i just done. i understand the formula is s=d/t. but i dont know what units to put my distance or time in :s i ran 7k in 24:50. how would i do it? thanks...