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I know light refracts because of changes in speed at media boundaries, but what is the actual mechanism that makes the path change? Why does a photon slowing down make a turn in towards the more-dense...
what is homeostasis
What are the components in smoke ,air ,Coke , milk ,vinegarand sea water
Which current results in milder winters in the British Isles and Scandinavia?
a. the Gulf Stream
b. the Australia Current
c. the Kuroshio Current
d. none of these
what is the hotest part of the rainbow
what is an epoch?
What is the largest bubble ever blown (volume)? Theoretically, given atmospheric pressure, surface tension, etc, what would be the largest size that a bubble could be blown to?
Cancer-causing agents (carcinogens) usually act on cells that are dividing. Which of the four tissues would carcinogens most influence? Least influence?
I had a question banned from the 'How it Works' section. I'm pretty certain there's no reasonable explaination for this, only an unreasonable one. Also, I've just received an email which defines...
When I think certain things or have some kind of revelation I feel tingling in my body sometimes. What is this? Is it a freeing up of some unresolved tension or something? Hopefully someone can...
hotest part of the rainbow? answer is a colour
At one time people saved the silver foil from cigarette packets, chocolate bars etc. This would be rolled up into a ball and then passed to a charity. Is there any call for these products for...
I'm studying towards a degree in Science and have just asked a question relating to CO that, surprisingly, has flummoxed some of my tutors. Can anyone guess why it was 'banned' from answerbank? Are we...
one of the stars in the star cluster Pleiades
I'm interested to hear peoples opinions on the soon to be switched on Large Hadron Collider. The LHC is a particle accelerator located on the France/Switzerland border; it has been dubbed the largest,...
I've been reading on the net about people who are taking one the cholesterol lowering statin , drugs suffering symptoms of severe muscle / leg pains , which they attribute to said drug . There are...
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Thinking types, I have a question. While trying to sleep last night I was pondering how long it would take for all traces of humanity to disappear from the planet if mankind were to be rendered...
On saturday I put my thermometer in the garden to see how warm it was. I left it in the sun for 5 mins and when I checked it, it was on the maximum - about 48C!!! Now, I know it wasn't that warm so...
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