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AskScience AMA Series: We're professional fact-checkers and science editors at Undark magazine, here to answer questions about truth-telling in science journalism. AUA.

2025 upvotes • AskScienceModerator

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When a bullet is fired, do the microorganisms in its trajectory path get destroyed/ killed?

2024 upvotes • activeNeuron

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How does the candle relighting trick work? the one where you light the smoke trail?

2024 upvotes • halosos

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AskScience AMA Series: We are Dr. Karen Cranston and Dr. Stephen Smith, computational and evolutionary biologists at Duke and U Michigan and other members of the Open Tree of Life team, here to answer questions about the Tree of Life, AMA!

2022 upvotes • Tree-of-Life

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If 13% of the Netherlands was under the ocean in the last few hundred years, why is the land so fertile?

2022 upvotes • Sarah2376

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Why is static always black and white even on color TVs?

2022 upvotes • javadft

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AskScience AMA Series: I'm Herman Pontzer, an anthropologist and professor at Duke University. My new book, BURN, shares new research on how the human metabolism really works so that we can finally improve health and manage weight. AMA!

2021 upvotes • AskScienceModerator

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People always talk about heat conduction, what is the best conductive material for cold, or is the best conductor for heat the same for cold?

2020 upvotes • brandobrandooo

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What advantage does the eye's (or brain's) white-balance-like system give, and how does it work?

2020 upvotes • A-Delonix-Regia

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Is there a theoretical minimum size for a living cell?

2019 upvotes • superhelical

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AskScience AMA Series: We're professional fact-checkers and science editors at Undark magazine, here to answer questions about truth-telling in science journalism. AUA.	2025	AskScienceModerator
When a bullet is fired, do the microorganisms in its trajectory path get destroyed/ killed?	2024	activeNeuron
How does the candle relighting trick work? the one where you light the smoke trail?	2024	halosos
AskScience AMA Series: We are Dr. Karen Cranston and Dr. Stephen Smith, computational and evolutionary biologists at Duke and U Michigan and other members of the Open Tree of Life team, here to answer questions about the Tree of Life, AMA!	2022	Tree-of-Life
If 13% of the Netherlands was under the ocean in the last few hundred years, why is the land so fertile?	2022	Sarah2376
Why is static always black and white even on color TVs?	2022	javadft
AskScience AMA Series: I'm Herman Pontzer, an anthropologist and professor at Duke University. My new book, BURN, shares new research on how the human metabolism really works so that we can finally improve health and manage weight. AMA!	2021	AskScienceModerator
People always talk about heat conduction, what is the best conductive material for cold, or is the best conductor for heat the same for cold?	2020	brandobrandooo
What advantage does the eye's (or brain's) white-balance-like system give, and how does it work?	2020	A-Delonix-Regia
Is there a theoretical minimum size for a living cell?	2019	superhelical