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News The reason you cant be flat footed in the military

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Medical Bone & Achilles Tendon strength?

  • Dav333
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Medical Modern technology on immortality

  • NightShift
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Can Ants Be Effectively Eliminated from Sugar Storage Containers?

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What are the benefits and risks of barefoot running?

  • willrr1
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How do domesticated cats navigate so well

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What Is Your Most Traumatic Injury Experience?

  • Norman
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Why does total iron binding capacity increase in anaemia?

  • sameeralord
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Medical Triune brain as a model for explanation

  • luma
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Medical Brain: How Do Visual and Auditory Systems Interact?

  • translation31
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Medical $1,000 Personal Genome Test, will you ?

  • rhody
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Medical Where do you guys stand in the scientific/medical ethics debate?

  • Elmnt
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Does air enter oesophagus while eating?

  • sameeralord
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Medical Identifying structures in brain MRI

  • Wo0p
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Medical Find Diagrams from a Book: An Internet Search

  • andyroo
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Is There Evidence for a 'Gay Gene' in Current Scientific Research?

  • Stratosphere
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Medical What colour absorbs radiant heat more?

  • Dav333
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Gulf spill, bioengineered life, and oil-eating bacteria

  • EnumaElish
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Telomerase Breakdown: How Does the Body Break It Down?

  • EpiGen
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Can Inaudible High-Frequency Sounds Still Damage Hearing?

  • nonequilibrium
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How do antibiotics know where to go?

  • sameeralord
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How Do Cancers Spread and Affect Other Organs?

  • sameeralord
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How Does the Brain Learn and Store Information Early On?

  • binbots
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Medical What Makes Rocking Motion So Soothing?

  • jobyts
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Do Nematodes Effectively Control Fleas in Yards?

  • Math Is Hard
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Microscope for individual cells/bacteria?

  • Scott.K
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Medical Synaesthesia or cross-modality in art

  • fuzzyfelt
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Medical Environmental Endocrine disruptors

  • Galteeth
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Plant Growth Strategies in Light and Dark Environments

  • billdock
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The Extraordinary Story of HeLa Cells: Could She Have Lived Forever?

  • leroyjenkens
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Do we know why mosquitoes do not transmit the HIV-AIDS virus?

  • daniel6874
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Quick question on mucous membrane of mouth

  • sameeralord
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Does Darth Vader have borderline personality disorder?

  • fourier jr
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With a name like EVO, it has to be good

  • Ivan Seeking
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Evidence of extraterrestrial biochemistry ?

  • SW VandeCarr
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Medical What is the voltage and force of the shock

  • smslca
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Can you achieve telomere maintenance without using gene therapy

  • bioquest
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We're having an Amityville fly moment

  • Chi Meson
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Medical CO2 Levels in Small Bedrooms: How Long is Safe?

  • Dav333
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Help ~I need the primers of porcine bcl-xs

  • cenzguo
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Why do nerves get a blood supply?

  • sameeralord
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Beginner question regarding evolution

  • silenzer
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How did RNA and complex enzymes emerge for DNA/RNA replication?

  • TubbaBlubba
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How to Interpret Drosophila Genetics Problem with Red and White Eye Traits?

  • fishingspree2
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Phylogenetic Endowment: What are Your Thoughts?

  • pgsleep
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Medical Is there a connection between different types of cancer in families?

  • uq_civediv
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Medical Brain that causes a person to suffer from dyslexia?

  • Forestman
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Optimizing Your Urban Homestead with Backyard Chickens

  • RedR49
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Medical Brain tumor linked to depression?

  • e-realmz
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Genes are the reason for this and that

  • rkos
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Pimples Can anyone recommend any remedies?

  • ranger
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Explaining the Logic Behind Skin Color

  • Wannabeagenius
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Unbelievable Medical Conditions

  • SF
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How does electricity flow through the body?

  • sameeralord
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Medical Using light to manipulate neurons

  • Pythagorean
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What have we done? Cats, 6; Tsu and Ivan, 2

  • Ivan Seeking
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Medical Human brain capability in seizure

  • messymarsh
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What is Selective about SSRIs ?

  • thrillhouse86
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Medical Someone explain why my heartbeat is SO. SLOW.

  • GreatEscapist
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Medical What's the strongest magnetic field safe for humans?

  • DeuteriumDude
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Medical Is Big Pharma Losing Money by Donating 1,000,000 Pills to the Destitute?

  • Loren Booda
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Medical Low-Carb Diet: Fuel for Brain & Muscle

  • pakmingki2
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Medical No problem! Glad to help jog your memory :)

  • daniel6874
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Is There a Gay Gene and What About Straight or Bisexual Genes?

  • Richard87
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Creative minds 'mimic schizophrenia'

  • rhody
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What were the causes of Gary Coleman's death?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why did some aboreal apes go extinct while others survived?

  • cph
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Medical Chest Wall Compliance: Effects on Lung Volumes?

  • nokia8650
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Medical Our genes, medical insurance and tax.

  • sophiecentaur
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Greatest degree of blood separation in humankind

  • Loren Booda
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Microwave & Cancer Risk: Is Heating Food/Fluids Dangerous?

  • PiRsq
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Poisonous plants, palatable plants

  • Loren Booda
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Medical Any chance of an artificial Lymph gland?

  • sophiecentaur
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Definition of The Biological Sexes

  • darkchild
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Concerns about HPV Vaccine Safety

  • GreatEscapist
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Medical Pareidolia and Hallucinations: Understanding the Connection

  • dratsab
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Controversy Surrounding GMO Patents: Examining the Ethical Implications

  • dgtech
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T7 RNA polymerase for SP6 promoter?

  • sobored
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Thoughts on genetically modified organisms/crops

  • doppie
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Can hypnosis replace traditional anesthesia in surgery?

  • I dont know
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82-year-old who claims he has not had any food or water

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Medical Use of statins at very young age

  • pp123
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Evolution and Choice(Free will)

  • sganesh88
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What is the future of synthetic life?

  • waht
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Your favorite drug prevents brain rot

  • mgb_phys
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UC Berkeley students asked to submit DNA samples

  • BenVitale
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Quick question about involuntary nerve impulses?

  • sameeralord
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How to determine DNA fragment size from this gel

  • kevin86
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Quick question about the endosteum relating to bone?

  • sameeralord
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Mineral+fluid intake during blood donation

  • EnumaElish
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Medical Concerning thoughts in my head.

  • operationsres
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Quantum mechanics and DNA and RNA

  • eehiram
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Medical Mechanism of Diarrhea: Speed of Food Passage to Rectum

  • DaveC426913
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Medical My Mom's Stage 4 Lung Cancer Battle

  • Zenparticle
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How harming will be this boxing or street boxing?

  • AlexES16
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Can We Ethically and Technically Clone Neanderthals?

  • mgb_phys
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The Eternal Cycle of Life: Nature, Death and Burial

  • fufalian
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Medical Can Thyroid Dysfunction Affect Blood Pressure and Heart Rate?

  • ~christina~
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