According to a recent newspaper article, Micah Richards main attribute is his ability to "hang in the air" when he jumps to head the ball. Scientifically, is this possible? Can anyone give a definite...
I was watching 2010 the other night and it set me wondring. If Jupiter were to turn into a sun what would be the effect on Earth? What would having a second sun do to us in the way of climate, and...
I am very unfit and very rarely use my bike however I have been for a 6 mile bike ride today and I found it very hard going. I tried working through the 5 gears on my bike to see which gave the...
Our car nearly failed it s MOT due to exhaust emissions. The item that nearly reached its upper allowed limit was the Lambda reading although the other values were about normal. If the lambda sensor...
if i was out in space wearing only a space suit and decided to return to the earth's surface without the aid of a space shuttle or re-entry capsule, what speed what i have to be going not to burn up...
I have two Neodymium disc magnets, with poles top and bottom. If I forced the opposing poles together, what would happen to the magnets over a long period of time? Would the magnetism dissipate? Would...
I did an experiment on the enthalpy change of combusion of a range of fuels. I am now trying to write it up and keep struggling with my hypothesis - I know I did it in the wrong order. Anyway,...
Not sure if this is in the right category but here goes, it was in the news that there is a major dust storm on Mars. I was under the impression that Mars doesn't have an atmosphere so how is it...
Astronomers estimate that there are x million stars in our galaxy and x million galaxies Obviously you cannot count them - so what ever the estimated figure is - might not it be 10/20/30 etc times the...
How much salt is there in Fairy Liquid and is it enought o cause accelerated corrosion in cars> I have looked up the ingedients on the P&G website and there is no reference to NaCl or any other...
just wondering how much electricity my treadmill will use when its on. I mean i know nothing about voltage etc and therefore dont know if everything uses the same amount ie. a light or a treadmill, or...
I was watching Mythbusters on TV earlier and part of the program involved weighing what was essentially an archery arrow between 1-2 feet long. The presenters weighed the arrow by placing it on a...
I live in a ground floor flat and the man in the flat upstairs parks his car outside my bedroom window. Throughout the night, the car makes a loud trilling peep from time to time. Sometimes there is a...
Re the rumours that the moon landings were faked, have we the telescopic capability to view the sites of the moon landings and see, for example, the moon buggy that was left behind, or the flag in...