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Can the Radiation from a Sample of Depleted Uranium Sterilize?

Submitted by Natolx t3_10yxpkv on February 10, 2023 at 5:31 PM

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AskScience AMA Series: I'm Here to Talk About Roots and Shoots: How Plants Prosper in the Desert and What it Means for Agriculture and Biodiversity, AMA!

Submitted by AskScienceModerator t3_zwe2th on December 27, 2022 at 12:00 PM

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How exactly is the "direction" of the flow of power measured in a alternating current system?

Submitted by Landhund t3_z1o0qe on November 22, 2022 at 8:04 AM

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considering the stomach is highly vascular, does the use of blood thinners and/or beta blockers affect digestion?

Submitted by Livid-Rutabaga t3_yttnde on November 13, 2022 at 6:17 AM

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Why does temperature determine the sex of certain egg laying animals like crocodiles?

Submitted by insink2300 t3_11drr8s on February 28, 2023 at 12:28 AM

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Is any "movement" visible in the fluctuations of the CMB over time, or does it appear static?

Submitted by JarasM t3_100snke on January 1, 2023 at 8:32 PM

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What are the forces on Earth’s Inner Core that change its speed?

Submitted by BayRunner t3_10jpa0r on January 23, 2023 at 10:17 PM

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What exactly is going on when a protein (or other molecule) binds with a receptor?

Submitted by Eat-A-Torus t3_11oij2y on March 11, 2023 at 12:04 PM

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Where does all of the snot come from when you have a cold?

Submitted by Dunkachin0 t3_103z74y on January 5, 2023 at 1:40 PM

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Why does alcohol kill bacteria, but not the cells that our bodies are composed of?

Submitted by Chairman_Mittens t3_y96dfg on October 20, 2022 at 6:45 PM

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Does your gut/gastrointestinal/digestive health affect how you feel mentally/psychologically?

Submitted by lilm8ey t3_yuytf5 on November 14, 2022 at 1:05 PM

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AskScience AMA Series: I am Prof. Beverley Hunt, OBE, and I am a hematologist in London, England. I am also chair of the World Thrombosis Day Steering Committee. I am here to talk about why MTHFR testing is unnecessary and can cause misinterpretation. AMA!

Submitted by AskScienceModerator t3_y0bsu7 on October 10, 2022 at 11:00 AM

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How do we know that we are in a certain place inside our galaxy? and how do we know how big it is just by looking at the cross section we are in?

Submitted by friday_panda t3_10d04va on January 16, 2023 at 12:37 AM

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Do crickets respond to TV’s and video audio, with their own sounds?

Submitted by Bony_Geese t3_y3hhf2 on October 14, 2022 at 2:27 AM

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Light traveling through a medium that slows it. Does the same photon emerge?

Submitted by TheGandPTurtle t3_111g7s9 on February 13, 2023 at 6:30 PM

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How can we know details about animals that lived thousands of years ago if all we have are bones?

Submitted by DemetrioGonz t3_y6z3nm on October 18, 2022 at 6:34 AM

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Would heavy unstable elements at the core of a star have a significantly extended half-life due to gravity?

Submitted by SpectralMagic t3_yeevdf on October 27, 2022 at 1:30 AM

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Was reading something related to Rock Salt mining. In places like the Himalayas where rock salt mining is done in cold temperatures, a lot of miners report burns. Why is it so that salt burns in a colder surroundings? Would it be the same reason why the salt ice challenge was so dangerous?

Submitted by vvdmoneymuttornot t3_115d67p on February 18, 2023 at 11:18 AM

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Can you (roughly) determine the dosage of a drug taken based off of the blood concentration?

Submitted by bynarie t3_10o8exw on January 29, 2023 at 2:06 PM

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When a person gets stomach flu (viral gastroenteritis) or food poisoning, what exactly is happening in the body that causes stomach cramps?

Submitted by geekonthemoon t3_z14kbc on November 21, 2022 at 5:24 PM

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Why is thiamine the predominant nutritional deficiency in alcoholics?

Submitted by supinator1 t3_yaxc56 on October 22, 2022 at 8:11 PM

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I recently learned that humans can smell rain / petrichor (ozone and geosmin) better than sharks smell blood, now considering we don't have any extra hyper specific olfactory organs like some other animals do, how do we achieve this level of detection?

Submitted by Corvuscoraxaphro t3_zuzy3o on December 25, 2022 at 3:17 PM

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Is there a genetic disease where the heterozygote has more severe disease symptoms than the homozygote?

Submitted by Altranite- t3_11damcv on February 27, 2023 at 12:25 PM

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Are short term weather patterns generally related to each other or more random?

Submitted by nbapip t3_107b7hy on January 9, 2023 at 10:34 AM

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What lifeform has the shortest genetic sequence?

Submitted by teafuck t3_xz4njj on October 8, 2022 at 9:52 PM

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