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Why do children with a higher bmi start puberty earlier?

Submitted by -LoveMeMore t3_z5rsad on November 27, 2022 at 4:41 AM

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How can foods cause cancer?

Submitted by CanaryChemical8201 t3_yzefzx on November 19, 2022 at 3:29 PM

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How does the body know which allele is dominant and which is recessive?

Submitted by JannickL t3_yze3qb on November 19, 2022 at 3:14 PM

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How could smuggling gold into a country with a struggling currency negatively impact its economy?

Submitted by JovialNarcissist t3_z6b2zf on November 27, 2022 at 8:06 PM

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Is it possible to have 4 copies of a single chromosome?

Submitted by Temporary_turbulance t3_yzbcyq on November 19, 2022 at 1:00 PM

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Can someone with an O Rh- blood type really donate blood to every single human being on earth or is there more nuance to it?

Submitted by Yalkim t3_z8fdqq on November 30, 2022 at 3:08 AM

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Just watched a clip of the Castle Bravo nuclear bomb go off. Why do mushroom clouds form the way they do?

Submitted by CannedDuck1906 t3_z2wimx on November 23, 2022 at 6:25 PM

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Do temporary viruses or infections affect quality of sperm cells? Is a child conceived while the father has a bad cold or influenza at higher risk of birth defects or problems?

Submitted by OakTeach t3_z8wf89 on November 30, 2022 at 4:51 PM

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How much truth is there to the statement that CRISPR-Cas9 only works on dividing cells and why?

Submitted by cincinlin t3_z6g3rf on November 27, 2022 at 11:22 PM

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Why is the three-body problem considered “unsolvable”?

Submitted by FishFollower74 t3_z3qfy2 on November 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM

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What happens at a molecular level to soften food when it cooks? Why do things become harder when charred?

Submitted by Singhilarity t3_z5svr1 on November 27, 2022 at 5:38 AM

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How do we know the last common ancestor between two animals?

Submitted by CaptainHindsight92 t3_yyj4wd on November 18, 2022 at 12:39 PM

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Why doesn’t regular screening improve outcomes for pancreatic cancer patients?

Submitted by raeflows t3_z3nal3 on November 24, 2022 at 3:49 PM

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Does Climate Change effect animal migration habits?

Submitted by chocolatechipdick t3_yye49p on November 18, 2022 at 7:30 AM

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do we know how chameleons "see" Things with two independent eyes? Is it integrated? Side by side?

Submitted by VivendusMoriendumEst t3_yy9q8p on November 18, 2022 at 3:19 AM

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Depictions of atomic nuclei often show distinct and individual protons and neutrons, is this accurate?

Submitted by ZTYTHYZ t3_z6xvej on November 28, 2022 at 2:23 PM

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Why are nut allergies so common?

Submitted by salfkvoje t3_z97rfu on November 30, 2022 at 11:55 PM

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Is their a left / right bias ?

Submitted by Miknarf t3_yy5qeh on November 18, 2022 at 12:02 AM

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What exactly is information?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_yy5887 on November 17, 2022 at 11:39 PM

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Is it possible for two planets to orbit each other in a way where Planet A is tidally locked to the sun while Planet B is in geostationary orbit on the dark side of Planet A, thus putting Planet B in a constant total solar eclipse?

Submitted by FenrirButAGoodBoy t3_yy55fp on November 17, 2022 at 11:35 PM

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If you froze soda for a year, would be still fizz when thawed out?

Submitted by The_Grand_Canyon t3_yy44ri on November 17, 2022 at 10:50 PM

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How soon after exposure is the flu contagious?

Submitted by AcJc_0604 t3_z4tozd on November 26, 2022 at 12:59 AM

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Why does hand foot and mouth disease (coxsackievirus) cause blisters in the hands, feet, and mouth?

Submitted by aubergine_alibi_ t3_yy1r0r on November 17, 2022 at 9:12 PM

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I was recently quite blown away on learning that alligators can regrow their tails. I looked up whether crocodiles can do it too and found that they can't. Any insight of why this is the case (i.e. why crocs can't do it)?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_yy12a8 on November 17, 2022 at 8:44 PM

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Are maturation and aging two separate processes in the human body? If so, at what point in your life, exactly, does one end and the other begin? Basically, when does your body reach "full development" and then starts to slowly deteriorate?

Submitted by I_got_too_silly t3_yy0r9t on November 17, 2022 at 8:32 PM

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