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what do the angles in a kite add up to? i guessed 360 but not sure ................................ science was the closest category...
At what speed does blood travel around our bodies.Say for a healthy 35 year old with average blood pressure.This is just idle curiosity on my part ,i have always wanted to know ever since seeing The...
how far can you see to the horizon over the sea?
why does the boiling point of water decrease with a drop in pressure
what is a metallic bond?
I just watched an old Mythbusters episode where they tested to see if talking to plants does improve their growth. Their experiment seemed to be well designed. They had several greenhouses under...
the major role of genes is to pass on what?
I have just read a book explaining the equation E=mc2 (sorry I can't do a smaller 2) I can get my head round the fact that everything contains potentially massive amounts of energy. What I can't get...
this may be obvious but please help what name, derived from the greek meaning 'man',is given to the scientific study of the human race? tia
When I was in college a few years back, we were discussing Resistance and Electrostatic Discharge. My electronics lecturer tested some of our resistance. When he did mine, he was very surprised and...
Just out of interest, can anyone tell me now many miles to the gallon my car would do if it was as energy efficient as my body?
Apparently Chinese maths questions are way harder than those we give our kids. I have to say I don't buy the article at all because my 14 year old son was able to do the so called "diagnostic test"...
where would genetic makeup occur?
is the human ear really designed to resolve sounds underwater?
what provides the information for inheritance?
sorry, this is probably the wrong place to put it, but i have a question which says, "Express d in terms of t" should i then start my answer t = or d = ? many thanks
When you swallow a liquid and it goes down the wrong hole - and you end up coughing like crazy - what is actually taking place in your body ?
My 12 year old has just asked me this one. How did someone originally work out what a light year was? Thanks in advance.
how is this for a theory ? and is it plausible? we look so far into space with our telescope that we can actually see earth as it was millions of light years ago!! ie:- we look right around the...
Is anyone as excited as me to hear the news of the discovery of this new planet ,Gliese S8IC , given that it is the most likely planet discovered so far , where ' life ' might be ? My 11 year old...