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When listening to the radio in a traveling vehicle and then going through a tunnel, and the audio of the song/news turns to static, what is being played through the radio if the signal is lost, as in, what provides the 'static' sound?	2850
[Astrophysics] How is it that the scattered matter of the "big bang" isn't an even spread across our cosmos and instead, we have enormous stars, small stars, humongous galaxies, and unfathomable voids between galaxies?	7
If the natural base temperature of the human body is 37 degrees Celsius why does that ambient temperature feel so uncomfortably hot?	1
How did the advent of 'toothbrushing' begin and were there any immediate recognizable benefits stemming from the practice?	1
What makes toothaches so painful please?	1
Bees and ants and other insects seem to enjoy 'sugar' but are they able to extract nutrients from artificial sweeteners such as aspartame or sucralose, and if not, why?	1
[Biology] Can/do animals crack their joints (like when humans crack their knuckles or back deliberately) for relief when they stretch out?	1
The idea of sending a willing participant to Mars or Europa would be a suicide mission (for instance). Are there/what are historical examples of individuals sacrificing themselves to prove a scientific point?	1
Is there a static ratio that a coalescence cascade adheres to as the droplet of (in this case) water loses the bulk of its mass with every bounce upward from the pool of water below and becomes exponentially smaller, and if so what would it be?	1
On the newish news regarding the genetically modified mosquitoes to be released, how much of an environmental change is expected? Atmospheric gases being of specific question to myself...?	1

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