/u/Ethan-Wakefield's posts in /r/askscience

Year:

Only show posts with narrations

What does it mean for light to be an excitation in the electromagnetic field?

95 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

How do animals evolve the ability to do really weird stuff, like make cocoons and metamorphasize into a butterfly?

59 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Does the human eye's depth of field change with iris dilation?

21 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What does it mean that "black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" and why was this worthy of a Nobel Prize?

20 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What does it mean when people say that we've fully sequenced the human genome?

8 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Does filling up tires with nitrogen make a difference?

2 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What is the state of autonomous (self-driving) cars, and why are self-driving taxis not yet available?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

What is the difference between an mRNA and a virus? Is it just philosophical or is there a biological difference?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Why do pandas eat bamboo?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

How do the 2-shot covid vaccines work? Why do they need to be 2 shots?

1 upvotes

Mark as read: Add to a list

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What does it mean for light to be an excitation in the electromagnetic field?	95
How do animals evolve the ability to do really weird stuff, like make cocoons and metamorphasize into a butterfly?	59
Does the human eye's depth of field change with iris dilation?	21
What does it mean that "black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity" and why was this worthy of a Nobel Prize?	20
What does it mean when people say that we've fully sequenced the human genome?	8
Does filling up tires with nitrogen make a difference?	2
What is the state of autonomous (self-driving) cars, and why are self-driving taxis not yet available?	1
What is the difference between an mRNA and a virus? Is it just philosophical or is there a biological difference?	1
Why do pandas eat bamboo?	1
How do the 2-shot covid vaccines work? Why do they need to be 2 shots?	1