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Medical Why is there inward current when voltage clamped hyperpolarised?

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Medical Is there a word for any thought stuck in your head?

  • jimmie
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Tonsils took out when i was a kid

  • wolram
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What can genetic testing reveal about me?

  • Line
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Can Our Genes Really Be Altered by Epigenetics?

  • Spin_Network
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Physical pain from withdrawl of meds?

  • DoAPoodle
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How do drug users gain tolerance for a drug?

  • confusedbyphysics
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Improve Vision: Is It Possible?

  • Teegvin
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Word Finding Troubles - Is It Normal?

  • Norman
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Is human evolution at a standstill?

  • wolram
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Opposing prevention of cervical cancer

  • marcus
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Medical A few optical illusions and their explination

  • Plastic Photon
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Are men still necessary for survival and reproduction in modern society?

  • Intuitive
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Question on spinal cord injuries

  • Lyuokdea
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What should I do if a blood vessel pops in my thumb?

  • Mk
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Do Male Mice Sing Love Songs to Attract Mates?

  • Astronuc
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Medical Membrane potentials in a nerve membrane

  • garytse86
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Electrostimulators and ultrasound machines for healing

  • Mk
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Wearing Multiple Contact Lenses: Is it Safe?

  • NeedBioInfo
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Is it possible for one to not have wisdom teeth?

  • misskitty
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Why do plants produce psychoactive alkaloids like DMT?

  • thunderfvck
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Race of humans cannot start with one man and one women?

  • pmb_phy
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Is Bird Flu a Real Threat? Discussing Biology and Politics

  • Mk
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How Does Philip Johnson Challenge Darwinism in Evolution as Dogma?

  • Les Sleeth
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Microbe Heat Resistance and Autoclave Testing

  • jamesrc
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Creativity Molecular Process Costume

  • aisha
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PETA's Rome strikes Again: Fish Bowl Ban Wins Award

  • Mk
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Medical How do we learn? And in the same way can a machine learn?

  • Moni
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Abortion clinic days blog

  • marcus
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Why do fats contain the most energy per gram?

  • Intr3pid
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History of Evolution: Historians of Science to the Rescue!

  • Diane_
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Cooking Wine - No Drunkenness or Allergies?

  • brudally
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Small beetle with grasshopper-like hind legs that jumps

  • Psi 5
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Should I donate to charities that fund animal experimentation?

  • wolram
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Can an Artificial 24th Pair of Chromosomes Create Superior Beings?

  • Mike AkA Don
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Medical How Has Dyslexia Affected Your Life?

  • TheStatutoryApe
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How Much Lift Do Houseflies Get from Air Displacement?

  • pervect
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Medical Searle's Chinese Room Argument Against AI

  • TheStatutoryApe
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Son injured after jumping from moving car at 20mph

  • Gale
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Medical Why stress and fatigue evolved despite their harmful effects

  • Mk
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Medical 'Thoughts read' via brain scans [BBC]

  • hypnagogue
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Debate over embryonic stem cell research

  • Mk
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Eating Healthy and losing weight.

  • wasteofo2
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What can I do to avoid getting sick besides washing hands?

  • moose
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Why do my teeth hurt when I eat chocolate?

  • Pengwuino
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Eating Too Many Cream Puffs - What To Do

  • Jonny_trigonometry
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Can Removing Excess Body Fat Tighten Loose Skin?

  • NeedBioInfo
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Gleocapsa: Unicellular, Nitrogen Fixer

  • Ester
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Woman survives removal of 200 pound neurofibromatosis tumor

  • Les Sleeth
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Is drinking urine healthy? What would happen?

  • mezeb40
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What Happened to Einstein's Brain After His Death?

  • The_Professional
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Sociology Argument: Race= Valid Means of Classifying

  • KC9FVV
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How Do Insulin and Adrenaline Regulate Glycogen Metabolism in Muscles?

  • garytse86
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Why agriculture and animal husbandry?

  • Nereid
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48% of Americans Believe in Darwin's Theory - How about You?

  • EL
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Are All Babies Born With Blue Eyes?

  • NeedBioInfo
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Incorrect atomic stability explanation in The Nature of Life textbook

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Medical Can Brain Scans See Depression? [NY Times]

  • hypnagogue
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Exothermic Animal Advantages in Certain Habitats

  • antiflag403
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Medical Sodium Channels in refractory period

  • garytse86
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Dominant, recessive, sexual selection

  • honestrosewater
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Synthetic Biology: Creating Life on Earth Beyond Our Imagination

  • Ivan Seeking
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Do other senses improve if you lose one?

  • Ramster5678
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Why do we store excess fat near the stomach and buttocks?

  • PhysicBeginner
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Why do organic bananas have more external spots but fewer internal defects?

  • Smasherman
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Is 115-120 dB Loud Noise Harmful to Dogs and Humans?

  • DocToxyn
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Medical Shrimp have the world record for impulse conduction speed

  • Mk
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Biology homework questions need more helpers

  • Moonbear
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Medical Resources on scientific racism, IQ testing, and eugenics

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Can hybridization lead to successful survival of animals with modified genes?

  • NeedBioInfo
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What is the Confocal Image of an Organelle?

  • kevin86
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Numerous hypothesis for why bipedalism evolved

  • 0TheSwerve0
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How Would Black Plants Impact Earth's Biomes and Green Plant Populations?

  • bomba923
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Viruses aren't living things but

  • Math Is Hard
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What Fungal Species Are Hiding in Your Pillow?

  • Ivan Seeking
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What Are the Theories Behind Tooth Eruption?

  • The Sphinx
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What drug makes you feel invincible?

  • QuantumTheory
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Can you take a non human gene and implant it?

  • cronxeh
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Medical Medicine made from Indian Snakeroot?

  • Dooga Blackrazor
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Can Plants Actually Develop Cancer?

  • Bladibla
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Origin of the first living organism

  • farukmert
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Sister's Spider Encounter: A Canadian Experience

  • NeedBioInfo
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Medical Autism recovery or initial misdiagnosis?

  • Math Is Hard
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What physical changes would improve human abilities and comfort?

  • matthyaouw
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Are eukaryotes and prokaryotes the only cell types?

  • jimmie
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Killer flu virus built from scratch

  • selfAdjoint
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Salvia Divinorum for treatment of addiction

  • cronxeh
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Why do antibiotic-resistant bacteria evolve so quickly?

  • Genecks
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What is the Minimum Size Limit for Keeping Paddlefish?

  • Townsend
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Medical Dielectropharetic control of neurons

  • NeedBioInfo
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Did Neanderthal genetics play a role in the evolution of modern humans?

  • zoobyshoe
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Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection: A Scientific Revolution

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Chickens prefer beautiful humans, study finds

  • marcus
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How do you pronounce pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

  • Genecks
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Body twitches before I fall asleep

  • JamesU
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Can Molecular Assembly Create Living Cells?

  • sniffer
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Exploding toads/frogs in Hamburg

  • kleinwolf
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Vascularization muscle tissue and fat tissue

  • pattylou
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