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What are we sensing when we register a metallic taste? Can metals actually have a flavour?

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Do trees die of old age?

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Why is it that we start to forget a dream soon after we wake up? Why don't we remember them like everything else?

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Antibodies can be passed to babies through breast milk – can adults achieve the same effect? Can we make breast milk-based vaccines?

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Do women with big breasts have bigger risk of breast cancer than women with small ones?

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Why does Covid-19 affect your taste and smell?

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Why don't I feel pain in my sleep?

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Two part question: Why do some people in the physics community hold to the position that "time is an illusion"? On a related note: What do neuroscientists have to say about how time is perceived/constructed by the brain?

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When an electrical flow is traveling down a metal wire, what is going on at the atomic level?

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Cow brain is considered a delicacy in many cultures, yet vCJD (the prion disease associated with eating BSE-infected cows) is still vanishingly rare. How is this the case?

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Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
What are we sensing when we register a metallic taste? Can metals actually have a flavour?	400
Do trees die of old age?	398
Why is it that we start to forget a dream soon after we wake up? Why don't we remember them like everything else?	396
Antibodies can be passed to babies through breast milk – can adults achieve the same effect? Can we make breast milk-based vaccines?	396
Do women with big breasts have bigger risk of breast cancer than women with small ones?	395
Why does Covid-19 affect your taste and smell?	395
Why don't I feel pain in my sleep?	394
Two part question: Why do some people in the physics community hold to the position that "time is an illusion"? On a related note: What do neuroscientists have to say about how time is perceived/constructed by the brain?	391
When an electrical flow is traveling down a metal wire, what is going on at the atomic level?	391
Cow brain is considered a delicacy in many cultures, yet vCJD (the prion disease associated with eating BSE-infected cows) is still vanishingly rare. How is this the case?	391