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We are being plagued with these things So are our neighbours so the source is not in our house. Problem is that normal Fly killing spray has absolutely no effect on them. We are using sticky fly paper...
What is the most incredible scientific fact you have ever heard? This is mine: The LHC accelerates a clump of protons equivalent to a teaspoon of hydrogen gas at standard atmospheric pressure and...
Water covers some 71% of the earths surface- (approx 326 million cubic miles- that's 326 million trillion gallons) which leads me to wonder how was water formed initially? Where did it come from, and...
Sorry my question may be very simple but it is bothering me. Question: Do all hen eggs become chicken when mother hen sits on them? When does the fertilization of these eggs take place? The eggs sold...
When I was a boy in the 1960's we collected conkers from horse chestnut trees. Sometimes the chestnut would be full of liquid instead of flesh. We referred to such a conker as a water-belly and...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44355150 "The car moved to change lanes in heavy traffic on a San Francisco motorway last year, according to GM's report, but then aborted its manoeuvre when...
I think there is something wrong with my voice. - I've struggled with chronic coughing/clearing of the throat for the past 7 years. It is usually worse when I am nervous or anxious. Once I start to...
I vaguely remember hearing, many years ago, that food manufacturers would put a quantity of an inert gas in bags of things like crisps, tortilla chips, sweets, etc. This was apparently (from what I...
Would someone mind checking my answers on a short science lab? Here it is: In a series circuit, electrons travel along a single pathway. The movement of the electrons through the circuit produces...
Been watching the program about the intercity 125 etc. Anyway, they made it tilt to take bends quicker fair enough but the track is not banked it's horizontal to the ground so it's not like a banked...
Year: 2013 Population GDP Sugar confectionery Sales Volume Sales Value Unit: '000 US$ million 000 tonnes US$ million China 1.354.040 9.468.778 1.294 26.407 India 1.245.961 1.937.999 233 758 Japan...
When you open a bottle or can of fizzy drink, the bubbles start rising quite fast at first. If you leave the container open for several hours, there will still be bubbles rising, although in fewer...
I read many years ago that as only the males have Y chromosomes, the Y chromosome is passed on from generation to generation almost unchanged for up to 30 generations. Therefore sons are going to...
Has anyone tried these? I recently received, at great expense from the US, a pair of Enchroma glasses. They claim to greatly help people with colour deficiency. I had been watching lots of clips of...