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A friend of mine told me that just because you have HIV doesn't mean you have AIDS. Is this true?
Are there more floods now than there used to be?
At night, why does it take my eyes several minutes to get used to darkness?
Biting on aluminum foil can be painful. Why?
Can bug zappers help transmit diseases?
Can flour explode?
Can grass seed grow on a lava rock as well as it can grow on soil?
Can I get AIDS from a mosquito bite?
Can I get struck by lightning when I'm indoors?
Can nasal sprays be addictive?
Can the curvature of the Earth only be seen from outer space?
Can two cans and a string really be used to talk over a distance?
Can water go bad?
Can you calculate how far away lightning struck by how long it takes for the thunder to arrive?
Can you explain pressurized airplane cabins?
Can you explain the diameter measurements used in bullets, wire and nails?
Can you make a rocket engine using hydrogen peroxide and silver?
Can you make time stand still?
Could I power my computer or my TV with a bicycle generator?
Could I see a flashlight beam from Earth on the moon?
Do certain radio wave frequencies (like those used by cell phones) pose health risks?
Do the humps on camels hold water?
Do whales and dolphins sleep?
Do you know what causes me to get leg cramps when I exercise, or, even worse, why I get cramps in my sleep after exercising during the day?
Does drinking ice water burn calories?
Does reading in low light hurt your eyes?
Does the chicken's body make the shell and fill it with the white and yolk, or does it make the white and yolk and then wrap the shell around it?
How and why do bats hang upside down all day?
How are astronomers able to measure how far away a star is?
How are coffee, tea and colas decaffeinated?
How are Crayons and markers made?
How are people able to breathe inside a submarine?
How are the Voyager spacecraft able to transmit radio messages so far?
How big does a meteor have to be to make it to the ground?
How can an egg carton claim that the contained eggs have less fat and more vitamin E?
How can I make my own battery to win a contest at school?
How can I track the NASA's Starshine satellite?
How can my glasses change from transparent, when I'm inside, to dark when I go outdoors?
How can ozone be both good and bad?
How can the grass on the greens at a golf course be so perfect?
How can there be seedless grapes? How can they reproduce?
How can you make a wine glass sing?
How can you measure the height of a tall tower?
How did public fountains, like those in Rome, work without any type of motor to pump the water?
How do a zebra's stripes act as camouflage?
How do antibiotics work?
How do artificial flavors work?
How do astronauts function in their spacesuits for hours at a time?
How do astronomers detect that a star has a planet orbiting it?
How do bacteria become resistant to antibiotics?
How do brewers measure the alcohol in beer?
How do ear thermometers work?
How do fans make you feel cooler?
How do fireflies light up?
How do fish rise and sink in the water?
How do flies breathe?
How do fog machines work?
How do honeybees make honey?
How do I build a telescope at home?
How do I burn calories on a stair machine?
How do Mexican jumping beans work?
How do mood rings work?
How do one-way mirrors work
How do oysters make pearls?
How do people pull large objects with their teeth?
How do plants compare to solar cells when it comes to collecting solar energy?
How do polymer crystals work and why do they absorb so much water?
How do Pop Rocks candy work?
How do satellites orbit the earth?
How do scratch-and-sniff stickers work?
How do Sea Monkeys work?
How do sodium-acetate heat pads work?
How do spray bottles pump fluid?
How do the battery testers on battery packages work?
How do the engines breathe in diesel submarines?
How do the streetlights turn on automatically at night?
How do they get lead in a wooden pencil?
How do they get the balls in ball bearings so perfectly round and smooth?
How do they make marshmallows?
How do they measure sea level?
How do they start jet engines on airplanes?
How do torpedo engines work under water?
How do touch-sensitive lamps work?
How do trick birthday candles work?
How do truck weigh stations work?
How Do Waterjets Work?
How do you calculate G-forces?
How do you write the chemical reaction that takes place in a smoke detector?
How does a ball point pen work?
How does a black light work?
How does a blood pressure gauge (sphygmomanometer) work? What exactly is blood pressure?
How does a candle work?
How does a cat's purring work? How do cats make the purring noise?
How does a catapult work?
How does a Crookes' radiometer work?
How does a dehumidifier work?
How does a Dippy Bird work?
How does a Fresnel lens work?
How does a Galileo thermometer work?
How does a gasoline pump at a filling station know when the tank is full?
How does a gun silencer work?
How does a hydraulic ram pump work?
How does a kidney dialysis machine work?
How does a lava lamp work?
How does a lie detector (polygraph) work?
How does a magneto work?
How does a pinhole camera work?
How does a rebreather work?
How does a rice cooker know when to turn off?
How does a seismograph work? What is the Richter scale?
How does a self-winding watch work?
How does a three-way light bulb work?
How does a water-cooled air conditioner work?
How does acupressure work?
How does an afterburner work?
How does an Indiglo watch work?
How does an oxygen canister on an airplane work? How can heat generate oxygen?
How does an X-ray machine work?
How does botulism work?
How does "bulletproof" glass work?
How does catnip work?
How does chlorine bleach work?
How does chlorine work to clean swimming pools?
How does dry cleaning work?
How does dry ice work?
How does Dursban work?
How does glow-in-the-dark stuff work?
How does gravity assist work with interplanetary satellites?
How does gravity work?
How does hemp work?
How does olestra work?
How does popcorn work?
How does reverse osmosis work?
How does rust work?
How does saturation diving work?
How does SETI@home work?
How does silk-screening work?
How does St. John's wort work?
How does the aurora borealis (the Northern Lights) work?
How does the pop-up timer on a turkey work?
How does the sense of smell work? What causes a smell?
How does the windchill factor work?
How does your body know the difference between dominant and recessive genes?
How does your stomach keep from digesting itself?
How far does ultraviolet light penetrate into the body?
How is helium made?
How long can a germ live in a room?
How long can a human survive in outer space?
How many calories does a person need daily?
How many regular-sized helium-filled balloons would it take to lift someone?
How many senses does a human being have?
How many sheets of paper can be produced from a single tree?
How many solar cells would I need in order to provide all of the electricity that my house needs?
How many teaspoons are there in a cubic light year?
How much coal is required to run a 100-watt light bulb 24 hours a day for a year?
How much corn would I need to grow in order to produce enough ethanol fuel to drive my car across the country?
How much does planet Earth weigh?
How much oxygen does a person consume in a day?
How much water is there on Earth?
How quickly does hair grow?
How strong are the magnets in an MRI machine?
How will the Mir space station be deorbited?
I have heard that carbon monoxide is extremely poisonous. Can you explain why?
I would like to donate blood -- do they need all blood types or just certain ones?
I've heard of bank robbers being foiled by a "dye pack" put in their money stash. What is a "dye pack"?
If nature abhors a vacuum, then why doesn't the vacuum of space suck away all of the Earth's atmosphere?
If the polar ice caps melted, how much would the oceans rise?
If the temperature is 30 degrees F, why do we sometimes get snow and other times get freezing rain?
If water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen, why can't we breathe underwater?
If you could spin a carousel fast enough to get its rim moving at nearly the speed of light, would time stand still for people on the carousel?
If you were to move all of the matter in the universe into one corner, how much space would it take up?
In a PA system, how does feedback work to cause that howling sound?
Is antibacterial soap any better than regular soap?
Is chocolate poisonous to dogs?
Is it harmful to breathe 100-percent oxygen?
Is it possible to generate electricity directly from heat?
Is it possible to see (with a telescope) the stuff left behind on the moon?
Is it true that scientists are predicting a really big earthquake will sink western California?
Is there a difference between monkeys and apes?
Is there a way to make my sunglasses scratch-resistant?
Is there any way to see satellites that are in orbit?
Marshall, where do you go when YOU have a question?
Meteors burn up when they hit the Earth's atmosphere. Why doesn't the space shuttle?
My glasses have an anti-reflective coating. How does that work?
Someone told me that if there are 20 people in a room, there's a 50/50 chance that two of them will have the same birthday. How can that be?
What are all the different ways to store energy besides using rechargeable batteries?
What are amps, watts, volts and ohms?
What are calories? How are they measured in food?
What are carbide tips?
What are chiggers and how do they bite?
What are dissolvable stitches?
What are electrolytes?
What are frankincense and myrrh?
What are genetically modified (GM) foods?
What are homogenization and pasteurization?
What are motion cards and how do they work?
What are stem cells and what are they used for?
What are the "four Cs" that people talk about when buying a diamond?
What are those microchips that people put in their dogs?
What are vitamins and how do they work?
What causes a rainbow?
What causes a sonic boom?
What causes an ice cream headache?
What causes heat stroke?
What causes helium balloons to lose their lift after a day or two?
What causes high tide and low tide? Why are there two tides each day?
What causes me to gain 2 or 3 pounds during the day and then lose 2 or 3 pounds while I sleep?
What causes poison ivy?
What causes snoring and can anything be done about it?
What causes "the bends"?
What causes the common cold?
What causes the seasons?
What causes the smell after rain?
What does "Case Hardened" mean when it's stamped on a piece of metal?
What does it mean when a barometer is rising or falling?
What does it mean when someone has 20/20 vision?
What does tear gas do?
What does the filter on a cigarette do?
What exactly is amnesia?
What force causes a 3-pole motor to spin one way and not the other?
What happens if I touch the surface of a CD?
What happens when pregnant women smoke?
What happens when someone gets a Botox injection?
What is a birthmark?
What is a carat, and how does it relate to a karat?
What is a cavity in a tooth? Why do they drill it?
What is a decibel, and what is the loudest sound I can listen to before it hurts my ears?
What is a fossil?
What is a gene, and what is genetic engineering?
What is a glacier?
What is a heart bypass operation?
What is a keyhole satellite and what can it really spy on?
What is a light year?
What is a Nor'easter?
What is a punkin chunkin, and what types of machines throw those pumpkins so far?
What is a remotely operated spy plane?
What is a spider's silk made of?
What is a tank engine, as in "Thomas the Tank Engine"?
What is activated charcoal and why is it used in filters?
What is an appendix and what causes appendicitis?
What is an atomic clock and how does it work?
What is an oscilloscope used to measure?
What is baking powder and how does it work?
What is chewing gum made of?
What is dioxin?
What is dye-sublimation printing?
What is dynamite and how does it work?
What is foot-and-mouth disease?
What is in an antiperspirant that stops sweat?
What is lucid dreaming?
What is lymph?
What is narcolepsy?
What is OxyContin?
What is relative humidity and how does it affect how I feel outside?
What is root beer?
What is silica gel and why do I find little packets of it in everything I buy?
What is sodium nitrate? It seems like lots of meats contain it. Is it in any way harmful?
What is "sunburn"?
What is superconductivity?
What is the biggest animal ever to exist on Earth?
What is the Chandler wobble?
What is the crystaline substance found in disposable diapers?
What is the difference between a fluorescent light and a neon light?
What is the difference between a hardwood and a softwood?
What is the heat index that the weatherperson talks about during the summer?
What is the Strategic Petroleum Reserve?
What is the UV index and how is it calculated?
What is white noise?
What makes glass transparent?
What makes super glue so super?
What makes us yawn?
What makes you dizzy when you spin?
What makes your arms, legs and feet fall asleep?
What makes your knuckles pop?
What would happen if I drilled a tunnel through the center of the Earth and jumped into it?
What would happen if you fired a gun on a train moving as fast as a bullet?
When an aerobatic plane flies upside down, how does the fuel get to the engine?
When I stand at the water's edge and look out over the ocean, how far away is the horizon?
When you have an itch, what is happening under your skin?
Where do bullets go when guns are fired straight up into the air?
Where do the names for prescription drugs come from?
Where does cork come from?
Where does the color come from in purple cabbage?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Why are boogers sticky?
Why are moths attracted to light?
Why are the insides of tunnels usually covered in ceramic tile?
Why are the waves on the U.S. West Coast larger than the waves on the East Coast?
Why are there more thunderstorms during the summer?
Why can a trained athlete run a marathon, but a couch potato cannot run half a mile?
Why can boats made of steel float on water when a bar of steel sinks?
Why can some medicines be taken as pills, while other medicines have to be injected with a needle?
Why can you hear the ocean when holding a seashell to your ear?
Why can't you tickle yourself?
Why do apples and potatoes turn brown when you slice them? How do you keep them from turning brown?
Why do batteries seem to go dead and then come back to life if you let them rest?
Why do bridges ice before the rest of the highway?
Why do cats have whiskers?
Why do CDs reflect rainbow colors?
Why do eggs turn hard when you boil them?
Why do feet stink?
Why do golf balls have dimples?
Why do hurricanes seem to move as if they have a mind of their own, and why do they follow such peculiar tracks?
Why do many foods have "High Altitude Cooking Instructions"?
Why do my ears pop when I dive in the deep end of the pool?
Why do my home and office seem to be infested with gnats in the summer? Where are they coming from?
Why do newspapers turn yellow over time?
Why do onions make you cry?
Why do people have red eyes in flash photographs?
Why do people tap on soda cans before opening them?
Why do some dump trucks have extra, moveable axles?
Why do the plugs on some appliances have two prongs and others have three prongs?
Why do they add iodine to table salt?
Why do they use salt to melt ice on the road in the winter?
Why do those long, white clouds form behind jets flying high overhead?
Why do tools have "Drop Forged" stamped on them? What is drop forging?
Why do we get headaches?
Why do we have eyebrows?
Why do Wint-O-Green Life Savers spark in the dark?
Why do you hear some radio stations better at night than in the day?
Why does a mirror exchange left and right but not up and down?
Why does Alka Seltzer fizz?
Why does caffeine keep you awake?
Why does chocolate turn gray sometimes? Is it still safe to eat?
Why does hydrogen peroxide foam when you put it on a cut?
Why does smoke come from a fire?
Why does the hair on your arms stay short, while the hair on your head can grow very long?
Why does the moon look so much bigger when it is near the horizon?
Why does the sky get dark at night?
Why does the weight come back so quickly once I stop dieting?
Why does your body temperature rise when you have a virus such as the flu?
Why doesn't gasoline burn cleanly?
Why doesn't paper money disintegrate when it gets washed in the washing machine?
Why doesn't the exhaust in a jet engine come out the front?
Why don't water towers freeze solid in the winter?
Why is cotton more absorbent than nylon?
Why is it colder at the top of a mountain than it is at sea level?
Why is snow white?
Why is the back of a refrigerator painted black?
Why is the sky blue?
Why is there a bulge in the exhaust pipe of my dirt bike?
Why is there a small hole on the top of spray-can lids?
Why shouldn't I go in swimming right after I eat?
Will aspartame make me go blind?
Will we ever have space ships parked in our garages?
Would a balloon filled with vacuum instead of helium float?
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