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It has been suggested to me by my doctor that I eat yoghurts containing "good" live bacteria - probiotics as I understand it. There seems to be a lot of choice on the supermarket shelves. For example...
Hello. I want to buy some foam of the same type used for the common mouse mat. Does anyone know what type it is and what I should be looking for? Ta.
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/sc ience-e nvironm ent-209 47224 It has just been announced the forecasting is all wrong and is now set at a lower figure. In fact global temperatures haven't risen at all for...
when in space, what do the thrusters push against to change direction of a vehicle
An international team of astronomers led by the University of Central Lancashire in the UK has discovered "the largest known structure in the universe." The team says that the recently observed large...
What I know (in an idiots fashion.) The moon takes 28 days to orbit the Earth and 28 days to do one Moon rotation. The moon can always be seen somewhere from Earth. weather permitting. I see how it...
For years I have been told about people going mad etc on a full moon as have we all. In my line of work I have heard it more and more working with challenging behaviour and dementia etc. I have often...
A question arising in my home from the BBC programme ‘Stargazing Live’ tonight. Moons revolve around planets, planets revolve around suns, and the whole lot revolves around …. what?...
Does the Moon have a postcade (or more likely, a zipcode)? Sounds like a stupid question, but I vaguely recall that on one of the Moon missions back in the early 70s, they took some envelopes or first...
I was reading this web page which is basically disparaging Thomas Edison and claiming that Nikolas Tesla was a complete and absolute genius. Does anyone know if the claims made in this are true or...
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Is the north star a star in our milky way galaxy? If so where abouts is it in relation to our solar system and planet earth. (Don't exactly know how one can answer this without a picture...
Describe Ohm's law?
Do solid ionic compounds not conduct electricity because the IONS are not free to move or the ELECTRONS? Thanks:)
Please could you tell me the answers to these questions and tell me why that's the answer? 1. An element "X" has the following properties, -it's a gas - it's not made up of molecules - it doesn't...
I was thinking of buying one of these - plenty available on Amazon - but suddenly had a moment of apprehension: I keep a very large private archive of audio and video recordings from radio and TV, and...
Hi, I've been researching my family history and managed to get back as early as my 25th Great Grandfather who was born around the year 1050 ! I worked out that everybody has 67,108,864 25th Great...
Can any ABrs give me the proper term for Earth's 26.000 year "wobble" around the axis?...
Can anyone tell me the Limiting Oxygen Concentration figure (also known as Maximum Oxygen Concentration or MOC) for Methane at 200 degrees Centigrade ?
Just been reported on Sky News, up to 100 every hour, will peak between 5 and 6 a.m. Highly visible in the NW.
As I'm on nights I'll hopefully catch the show later!...