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If I stick my head out of a car window at 65 mph and try to look directly ahead I’m effectively blinded by the air rushing passed my eyes. How does a cheetah see and track prey when running at top speed?

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Are the neurological effects that are being linked to COVID-19 likely to be unique to SARS-CoV-2, or could they be common to many types of coronavirus but have gone undetected because it hasn’t been extensively researched until now?

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How exactly would we all die if the Earth was in the direct path of a gamma ray burst?

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How exactly would we all die if the Earth was directly in the path of a gamma ray burst?

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Since we’ve been seeing headlines about new mutations of SARS-CoV-2, is there a prescribed threshold at which a mutation would qualify for being renamed?

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What made some animals able to be domesticated by humans? Was there some environmental or biological pressure that pushed certain species to become domesticatable over others?

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Is there evidence of asteroid impacts on the moon that would have been extinction level events had they collided with the Earth instead?

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What would it be like to travel through a gas cloud like the Orion Nebula where new stars are actively being formed?

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How does ice cause numbing?

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We’ve made several models for the formation of our own solar system to explain how the planets ended up in their particular orbits. Have we tried doing the same for other systems like Trappist-1 perhaps?

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If I stick my head out of a car window at 65 mph and try to look directly ahead I’m effectively blinded by the air rushing passed my eyes. How does a cheetah see and track prey when running at top speed?	3500
Are the neurological effects that are being linked to COVID-19 likely to be unique to SARS-CoV-2, or could they be common to many types of coronavirus but have gone undetected because it hasn’t been extensively researched until now?	5
How exactly would we all die if the Earth was in the direct path of a gamma ray burst?	1
How exactly would we all die if the Earth was directly in the path of a gamma ray burst?	1
Since we’ve been seeing headlines about new mutations of SARS-CoV-2, is there a prescribed threshold at which a mutation would qualify for being renamed?	1
What made some animals able to be domesticated by humans? Was there some environmental or biological pressure that pushed certain species to become domesticatable over others?	1
Is there evidence of asteroid impacts on the moon that would have been extinction level events had they collided with the Earth instead?	1
What would it be like to travel through a gas cloud like the Orion Nebula where new stars are actively being formed?	1
How does ice cause numbing?	1
We’ve made several models for the formation of our own solar system to explain how the planets ended up in their particular orbits. Have we tried doing the same for other systems like Trappist-1 perhaps?	1