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to r/askscience by Leipopo_Stonnett
5 hours ago
If gravity is curved spacetime, why do light rays not get pulled down to the Earth?
Physics
to r/askscience by Lochrin00
1 month ago
How do mass scales work in space?
Physics
to r/askscience by marcuschau1
2 weeks ago
If you swallow a piece of cancerous mass will you get cancer?
Biology
to r/askscience by RIPEOTCDXVI
4 months ago
Are there other places on earth that ice sheets have "missed" over the last few ice ages of ice sheet advancement like the driftless area of the upper Mississippi valley?
Earth Sciences
in Mississippi
to r/askscience by Budelius
5 months ago
What structural modifications do 747 supertankers have to enable carrying their firefighting payload without the shifting weight affecting lift or tearing the aircraft apart from momentum?
Engineering
to r/askscience by Djerrid
5 months ago
As light gets redshifted traveling long distances, does it lose energy since longer wavelengths have less energy than shorter wavelengths?
Physics
to r/askscience by AskScienceModerator
5 months ago
AskScience AMA Series: I am a planetary geologist from the University of Maryland, and I recently operated a simulation to help astronauts prepare for the moon. Ask me your moon-related questions!
in Maryland
to r/askscience by DeltaDied
5 months ago
Can someone help me understand electricity more?
Physics
to r/askscience by WrongJohnSilver
5 months ago
Why do most fossil fuels come from the Carboniferous period?
Earth Sciences
to r/askscience by MD2489
5 months ago
Why don’t you move when you jump on a plane but astronauts faces move when in a rocket?
Physics
to r/askscience by Electrical_Dog_9459
5 months ago
Why do we measure radiation sources with "half life" instead of "whole life"?
Physics
to r/askscience by quinnpaine
5 months ago
Can the human body survive on its own fat?
Human Body
to r/askscience by Infocollector914
5 months ago
How does fentanyl kill?
Biology
to r/askscience by electronseer
5 months ago
When bacteria invade our facial sinuses and cause sinusitis, what do the bacteria eat?
to r/askscience by tytheby14
5 months ago
When an intraplate strike-slip fault ruptures, does the fault get longer?
Earth Sciences
to r/askscience by getthedudesdanny
5 months ago
How is the ignition point of a wildfire determined? It seems like an impossible task.
Earth Sciences
to r/askscience by RIPEOTCDXVI
5 months ago
How much do we know about the "carrying capacity" of various dinosaur species?
Paleontology
to r/askscience by Main-Spinach-8565
5 months ago
Toppling of a rectangular bottle?
Physics
to r/askscience by NimLord
5 months ago
If rabies is deadly, how come it didn't eradicate itself?
Biology
to r/askscience by Redthrist
5 months ago
How would the Sun actually look like to a close observer?
Astronomy
to r/askscience by AziDoge
5 months ago
Why is raw flour unsafe but raw vegetables are not?
Biology
to r/askscience by wowalamoiz2
5 months ago
Is it possible to destroy a virus's nucleic acid without destroying its capsid?
Biology
to r/askscience by CaynadianToo
5 months ago
Where does all the air a hurricane sucks in go?
Earth Sciences
to r/askscience by EZ_LIFE_EZ_CUCUMBER
5 months ago
Are volcanic eruptions on Earth to a fignificant extend influenced by gravitational pull of our Moon?
Planetary Sci.
to r/askscience by PM_ME_PRETTY_EYES
5 months ago
Were humans the only hominids to cook food, or did other species arrive at it independently?
Paleontology