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Can humans afford to mine in space?
Is mining in space commercially viable? As the human race continues to rapidly grow larger, not only is space a diminishing commodity but so are resources. Sooner or later, as we outgrow our planet...
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Does microwaved water kill plants?
“I saw a picture of a plant having grown better when watered with purified water vs. microwaved water. Is this real?” The myth of microwaved waters effect on plants has been circulating for quite some...
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Where do our sayings come from?
Where do our sayings come from? Ones like “Madder than a box of frogs” or “running around like a blue arsed fly” The English language is often a mismatch of sayings and strange words that blend into a...
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Why do boys like blue and girls like pink?
When you were a boy it would have been social suicide to be seen with a Barbie doll. You ‘should’ have been sporting a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle action figure instead. In fact, if anyone suggested...
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Should I get rid of ant hills in my garden?
There are some really interesting facts about ants that I didn’t know until I started digging into this question. (So, thanks Linda!) I’ll assume you mean a common garden ant because if they’re fire...
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How does hay fever occur? And are we born with it?
Summer is here again! This can only mean two things: runny noses and swollen, watery eyes. When we desperately need an antihistamine, do we ever consider what’s happening in our body? Admittedly, we...
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Win an App Competition
We are offering ten people the chance to win free copies of the app Faker$ Gold. Faker$ Gold is a fun app developed by Heliceum (for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch). Normally priced at $3.99/£2.49 it lets...
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Why am I going bald? 8 reasons for why your hair falls out
Hair is very important to all of us. (Personally, my hair line receding like the tide is very scary.) Unfortunately, there are tons of ways in which we can lose our hair but you shouldn’t worry too...
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Why is the sea salty?
There are plenty of unscientific explanations to this answer. Have you heard the one about whales being responsible for making the sea salty? I won’t go further into it but I’m sure you can make the...
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What is the best speed and gear for the best fuel efficiency?
We’ve all been there: driving along happily when that rude, low fuel alarm bleep shrieks at you. Normally, this triggers a sense of exasperation – my poor wallet will have to take another hit for the...
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Why are moths attracted to light but they don’t fly towards the sun in the day?
You probably didn’t realise how much mystery surrounds moths. I normally consider them as annoying insects that enjoy circling my bathroom light while I brush my teeth. Moths’ obsession with...
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Why do cakes go hard when they are stale, but biscuits go soft?
The topic of biscuits and cakes raises enough questions to fill a picnic hamper. Your question is only rivalled by the very important and entirely essential question, ‘Are Jaffa Cakes biscuits or...
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Will pushing harder on a remote control button work if the batteries are low?
That’s a good question. I’ve also wondered whether shouting at the remote control will make it work better. My experience tells me that verbally abusing an inanimate object doesn’t work very well....
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Why do you get a headache when you eat ice cream too quickly?
Thankfully, science doesn’t leave too many stones unturned. The majority of us are happy to eat ice cream quickly and then spend the next 30 seconds with both hands covering our foreheads nursing an...
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What purpose do wasps serve? 4 reasons why wasps deserve to live!
It’s hard not to feel sorry for wasps sometimes. They have such a similar, friendlier counterpart: the bee, which makes an (almost) harmless insect like a wasp seem like a villain. However, I’d be...
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Do cut flowers last longer if you cut up or bruise the bottom of the stems? How?
They do indeed! There is a lot of contradictory advice on the internet about the handling and care of cut flowers. In fact, there’s enough advice to fill an academic journal – so much so that it could...
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What caused the Big Bang?
That’s a good question, but more importantly, it’s one of the biggest, most soul-searching questions we could ever ask. It’s also a question that doesn’t have an answer… yet (unless you’re religious of...
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Something to Harp(er) on about: we’ve got a new Deputy Editor!
He’s got a face worth paying good money for; in fact, Ross used to sell his face for advertisements! (It’s not as sordid as it sounds.) A Natural Sciences graduate from Cambridge turned entrepreneur...
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How many solar panels would I need for all my household electricity?
This is definitely a question that environmentalists have asked themselves. If we were able to power every household with a solar panel then we would dramatically reduce, but not completely stop our...
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Why do you gag at foods you dislike, even when they’ve never made you sick?
Humans had it pretty rough in the beginning; a group of (semi-)sentient beings who understood so little of their world, and had to traipse around in their Birthday suits. To make matters worse, they...
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