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Yesterday I visited a local nature reserve with a walled garden and medium sized wildlife pond. To my delight the pond was swarming with common frogs that were all in the process of spawning and...
scientist who studies heredity?
just another daft question but what would happen if the world stopped spinning? Does it keep us on the planet? Or is it something else? Thank you for your time.
Does anyone know what gardes i need to become a marine biologist?
Someone i know claims that he cant wear watches due to the fact he has a charge of electricity in his body, he claims if he wears a watch the charge will change the time on the watch, is he just bull...
At school we were taught that black absorbs heat and white reflects heat. If that is so why is it that in Africa where it is hot the population is black and therefore absorbs heat and get too hot and...
why do objects travel at such great speeds in space, and does the shuttle get pulled to one side when it leaves the earths atmosphere???
I live on the side of a hill at about 500 feet above sea level. I weigh about 11 stone. would I weigh less at 5000 feet, 10,000 feet, 20,000 and 30,000 feet? Thanks, ODM.
I have also heard of an ex periment that used compressed gas, ions wear shot threw the gas and came out the other side at 300 time faster than speed of light. Science was not sure if this occured...
I would like to work in a mortuary, can you tell me where to begin?
In the scenario of a stream of liquid emerging from a pipe and then falling freely under gravity, does anyone have an elegant method of calculating the point at which the stream thins and breaks up...
Can you charge / fix a defibrillator using paper and aluminium?thanks.
why are transformers necessary when electrical energy is being carried over long distance
is glass liquid, and is it true that in very old buildings if you took the original windows out they would be thicker at the bottom than the top
has anyone used or have any ferrofluid? i kno u can bye it but its hard to believe its real from just the photographs on the internet. the fact that a liquid can be magnetic in such a way looks like...
okay once and for all how many moons does the earth have? can someone who is qualified in this area please tell me.
How many people would need to be on the planet for DNA to be duplicated, ie the number of combinations to run out? (not including identical twins)
If one could imagine the drifting titanic movements of outer layers of the Earth in it's development stages in super fast-forward motion, what kind of patterns of change could be detected? Of motion...
Has a satisfactory reason ever been given for accurately predicting the orbit of planets around the sun and the distances involved? This simple formual has predicted this for the 6 planets around the...
I seem to recall reading somewhere that there are more stars in the universe , than there are grains of sand in the world Can this possible be correct , or am I totally mistaken ? I suspect , the...