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What’s the best way to crack an egg? Physics has the answer.
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What’s the best way to crack an egg? Physics has the answer.

By Hanna Bolaños

What’s the healthiest way to eat a vegetable?
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What’s the healthiest way to eat a vegetable?

By Claire Maldarelli

Does brushing your teeth affect your appetite?
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Does brushing your teeth affect your appetite?

By Claire Maldarelli

Can I use moss to navigate?
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Can I use moss to navigate?

By Knvul Sheikh

Could you fertilize Martian crops with human poop?
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Could you fertilize Martian crops with human poop?

By Michael Koziol

Who Blows A Lighthouse’s Foghorn?
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Who Blows A Lighthouse’s Foghorn?

By Melissa Klein

Why Is It So Hard To Get Rid Of Garlic Breath?
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Why Is It So Hard To Get Rid Of Garlic Breath?

By Melissa Klein

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Do Skunks Hate The Smell Of Their Own Spray?

By Melissa Klein

Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted the metric system?
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Why hasn’t the U.S. adopted the metric system?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does Sunlight Lighten Hair But Darken Skin?
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Why Does Sunlight Lighten Hair But Darken Skin?

By Daniel Engber

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Does Giving Blood Harm Your Immune System?

By Daniel Engber

shower curtain billowing while researcher observes its behavior
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Why Do Shower Curtains Billow Inward?

By Daniel Engber

Do Beards Keep Men Warm?
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Do Beards Keep Men Warm?

By Daniel Engber

Which is More Powerful: A Giant Microscope or a Giant Telescope?
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Which is More Powerful: A Giant Microscope or a Giant Telescope?

By Daniel Engber

Why Do I Feel Like Someone’s Watching Me?
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Why Do I Feel Like Someone’s Watching Me?

By Daniel Engber

Should I Be Freaked Out By Backwash?
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Should I Be Freaked Out By Backwash?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does Bright Light Make Me Sneeze?
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Why Does Bright Light Make Me Sneeze?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does Stale Bread Turn Hard, But Stale Chips Turn Soft?
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Why Does Stale Bread Turn Hard, But Stale Chips Turn Soft?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does A Drop Of Water Confuse My Touchscreen?
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Why Does A Drop Of Water Confuse My Touchscreen?

By Daniel Engber

Does It Feel Better To Give Or Receive A Gift?
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Does It Feel Better To Give Or Receive A Gift?

By Daniel Engber

Does ‘Bracing For Impact’ Really Protect You In A Crash?
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Does ‘Bracing For Impact’ Really Protect You In A Crash?

By Daniel Engber

Do men have hormonal cycles?
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Do men have hormonal cycles?

By Daniel Engber

Does Coffee Give You A Different Buzz Than Tea?
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Does Coffee Give You A Different Buzz Than Tea?

By Daniel Engber

Will Practicing A Skill In Your Head Make You Better At It?
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Will Practicing A Skill In Your Head Make You Better At It?

By Daniel Engber

Does Using The AC Make It Hotter Outside?
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Does Using The AC Make It Hotter Outside?

By Daniel Engber

How Much Exercise Do We Get From Talking?
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How Much Exercise Do We Get From Talking?

By Daniel Engber

Could A Lion Live On Veggie Burgers?
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Could A Lion Live On Veggie Burgers?

By Daniel Engber

Can Hypnosis Kill You?
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Can Hypnosis Kill You?

By Daniel Engber

What’s the Deal with Paranormal Ectoplasm?
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What’s the Deal with Paranormal Ectoplasm?

By Daniel Engber

Why is Candy Crush So Addictive?
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Why is Candy Crush So Addictive?

By Daniel Engber

Does Hitting The Snooze Button Help Or Hurt?
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Does Hitting The Snooze Button Help Or Hurt?

By Daniel Engber

Can You Get A Smell Stuck In Your Head?
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Can You Get A Smell Stuck In Your Head?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does Mold Come In So Many Colors?
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Why Does Mold Come In So Many Colors?

By Daniel Engber

Can Two People Repopulate Earth?
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Can Two People Repopulate Earth?

By Morgan Kinney

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Ask Us Anything: Why Don’t Electric Eels Electrocute Themselves? [VIDEO]

By Daniel Engber

Do Fish Get Out Of Breath?
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Do Fish Get Out Of Breath?

By Daniel Engber

How Big Would A Meteorite Have To Be To Wipe Out All Human Life?
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How Big Would A Meteorite Have To Be To Wipe Out All Human Life?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Us Anything: Can Body Fat Protect You Like A Built-In Cushion?
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Ask Us Anything: Can Body Fat Protect You Like A Built-In Cushion?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Can Plants Get STDs?
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Ask Anything: Can Plants Get STDs?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Us Anything: Are There Electronic Defenses Against Drones? [Video]
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Ask Us Anything: Are There Electronic Defenses Against Drones? [Video]

By Daniel Engber

How Did That Spiderweb Cross The Road?
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How Did That Spiderweb Cross The Road?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does Crying Make My Nose Run?
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Why Does Crying Make My Nose Run?

By Daniel Engber

Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? [Video]
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Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? [Video]

Open up, Sun
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Ask Anything: What’s The Hottest Temperature Possible?

By Daniel Engber

Can You Fix A Machine By Smacking It?
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Can You Fix A Machine By Smacking It?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does My Dog Kick When I Scratch His Belly?
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Why Does My Dog Kick When I Scratch His Belly?

By Loren Grush

Can You Get PTSD From A Virtual Experience?
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Can You Get PTSD From A Virtual Experience?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Why Is Picking Up A New Language Easier As A Kid?
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Ask Anything: Why Is Picking Up A New Language Easier As A Kid?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Brain Damage?
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Ask Anything: Why Don’t Woodpeckers Get Brain Damage?

By Daniel Engber

A Glacial Lake Near The Eyjafjallajökull Volcano
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What Happens When A Volcano Erupts Under A Glacier?

By Sarah Fecht

FYI: Can Praying Mantises Eat Hummingbirds?
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FYI: Can Praying Mantises Eat Hummingbirds?

By Douglas Main

Ask Anything: Can Humans Smell Fear?
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Ask Anything: Can Humans Smell Fear?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: How Long Can A Flower Live Once It’s Picked?
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Ask Anything: How Long Can A Flower Live Once It’s Picked?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Would Cannibalism Make You Fat?
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Ask Anything: Would Cannibalism Make You Fat?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Could You Build A Spaceship Out Of Wood?
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Ask Anything: Could You Build A Spaceship Out Of Wood?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: What Would People Eat In A Permanent Space Colony?
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Ask Anything: What Would People Eat In A Permanent Space Colony?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Can Insects Get Fat?
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Ask Anything: Can Insects Get Fat?

By Daniel Engber

What Happens To Your Body When You Get Drunk And Stoned At The Same Time?
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What Happens To Your Body When You Get Drunk And Stoned At The Same Time?

By Gabe Bergado

Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?
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Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Can You Hypnotize An Animal?
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Ask Anything: Can You Hypnotize An Animal?

By Daniel Engber

Why Does White Noise Help People Sleep?
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Why Does White Noise Help People Sleep?

By Colin Lecher

Ask Anything: What Does Water Taste Like?
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Ask Anything: What Does Water Taste Like?

By Daniel Engber

Ask Anything: Do Plants Get Cancer?
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Ask Anything: Do Plants Get Cancer?

By Daniel Engber

FYI: Why Doesn’t Plan B Work For Heavier Women?
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FYI: Why Doesn’t Plan B Work For Heavier Women?

By Francie Diep