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How does alcohol suppress the immune system?

5156 upvotes • numquamsolus

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Could DNA have a form of primitive "password protection"?

5156 upvotes • cordialgerm

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How are the stages of cancer determined? Like, what do doctors see in a tumour that makes them go "yep, that's a four. No going back. That's all"??? What makes a cancer a stage two, or three, or four?

5154 upvotes • lemon_scented_Enby

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Why does the east coast of North America have so many barrier islands, while the west coast has almost none?

5149 upvotes • peshgaldaramesh

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Can any animals ACTUALLY smell fear?

5148 upvotes • TheClayrooAtWork

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Why do we have so many variants of flu and COVID viruses, but we don't commonly hear of any HIV variants?

5148 upvotes • tandoori_taco_cat

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Why are so many people allergic to peanuts?

5141 upvotes • slushhush

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What happens to a colony-based insect, such as an ant or termite, when it's been separated from the queen for too long? Does it start to "think" for itself now that it doesn't follow orders anymore?

5140 upvotes • klendathu22

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How are we able to estimate the Planck's constant at a much higher accuracy (44 per billion) than the gravitational constant G (120,000 per billion)? What is affecting the measurement of G?

5140 upvotes • Niamrej

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why don't companies like intel or amd just make their CPUs bigger with more nodes?

5140 upvotes • guyush

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Title	Upvotes	Author	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
How does alcohol suppress the immune system?	5156	numquamsolus
Could DNA have a form of primitive "password protection"?	5156	cordialgerm
How are the stages of cancer determined? Like, what do doctors see in a tumour that makes them go "yep, that's a four. No going back. That's all"??? What makes a cancer a stage two, or three, or four?	5154	lemon_scented_Enby
Why does the east coast of North America have so many barrier islands, while the west coast has almost none?	5149	peshgaldaramesh
Can any animals ACTUALLY smell fear?	5148	TheClayrooAtWork
Why do we have so many variants of flu and COVID viruses, but we don't commonly hear of any HIV variants?	5148	tandoori_taco_cat
Why are so many people allergic to peanuts?	5141	slushhush
What happens to a colony-based insect, such as an ant or termite, when it's been separated from the queen for too long? Does it start to "think" for itself now that it doesn't follow orders anymore?	5140	klendathu22
How are we able to estimate the Planck's constant at a much higher accuracy (44 per billion) than the gravitational constant G (120,000 per billion)? What is affecting the measurement of G?	5140	Niamrej
why don't companies like intel or amd just make their CPUs bigger with more nodes?	5140	guyush