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Is altruism an instinct shaped by natural selection?

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Medical Is it Safe to Make Your Own Costume Contact Lenses Using Gelatine?

  • Danger
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How Do Santa Ana Winds Influence Wildfires in Southern California?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is hydrogen a super-antioxidant?

  • 111111
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Is Cross-Breeding Possible Between Humans and Other Animals?

  • Skhandelwal
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Medical Is Bio-Resonance Therapy a Valid Method for Quitting Smoking?

  • waht
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Medical New Superbug in Children: Streptococcus Pneumoniae 19A

  • scorpa
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Medical Is it Safe to Take Medication to Raise Low Blood Pressure?

  • rumki8
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Where do fruit flies come from when trash accumulates?

  • quasar987
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Understanding 'A Gene for X' from Steven Pinker's Debate

  • Pavel
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Could nanotechnology repair cells and reverse aging in humans?

  • bioquest
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What Are the Limits of Human Senses and Could There Be More?

  • Skhandelwal
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Swallowing 200gr Pb: Cancer Risk and Effects

  • Jekertee
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Medical What Are Some Interesting Research Topics in Physiology for a Masters Degree?

  • djflush
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News Switching off lights (and brains)

  • vanesch
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Did Exposure to a Dead Bomb Cause Birth Defects in This Man's Children?

  • Jekertee
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Are genetic sequences the only way to determine species relations?

  • Jekertee
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Why does plasmolysis cause cell shrinkage?

  • ritwik06
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What is the morphology of a chromosome under a light microscope?

  • ritwik06
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What Causes Sleepwalking and How Does It Happen?

  • Wild Angel
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Ckg733 the so-called anti-aging molecule - how to control aging?

  • bioquest
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Medical At what magnetic field strength do MRI fields become hazardous to human health?

  • Chronothread
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Medical Nervous System Problems/Diseases and multiple sclerosis

  • Eshi
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Did Neanderthals have red hair?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Why is HDL good for you but LDL bad?

  • Monique
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What do you make of Dr. Watson's comments?

  • waht
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How do cells physically store images and sensations in memory?

  • meaningoflight
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New Finding Challenges History of Evolution

  • LightbulbSun
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Medical Is vibroacoustic disease recognized as a valid diagnosis in science?

  • Far Star
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Medical Can Near-Infrared Contrast Agents Improve Early Detection of Breast Cancer?

  • Astronuc
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Medical Transfusion/marrow transplant for aids treatment

  • TeX
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Projected supply of pandemic influenza vaccine sharply increases

  • Moridin
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Medical Does intravenous hydrogen peroxide cure bird flu?

  • -RA-
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I'm losing my mind trying to get my Physiology Degree

  • Mr. Sinister
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Wisdom tooth surgery tomorrow at 10:30 am

  • radou
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Medical I am wondering if I am exceptionally visual

  • physicscrap
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Medical Parents claim religion to avoid vaccines for kids

  • Evo
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Medical Can sperm survive 5 minutes on a hand before reaching the vagina?

  • quasar987
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Medical How long before a dislocated finger becomes permanently crooked?

  • bioquest
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Medical Finding Resources for MRI: Books and Lectures

  • 7ala.elward
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Medical Cherry Juice May Cut Muscle Pain

  • Astronuc
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S4 helix of voltage-gated channels is the voltage sensor of the channel

  • djflush
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Medical How to increase the vital capacity of my lung?

  • Skhandelwal
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Medical Anti-Viral Drugs for healthy people

  • sean1234
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Medical Looking for ways to promote healing

  • devil-fire
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What are the dangers of inhaling methylated spirits?

  • suohryu
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Medical Is hypomania really a bad thing?

  • VOLVORacr
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Is American Exceptionalism Rooted in Hypomania?

  • hypnagogue
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Genius parrot baffles scientists

  • PIT2
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Medical Understanding and Managing Anxiety: A Scientist's Perspective

  • LightbulbSun
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Medical Dreams about familiar places and random quotes

  • LightbulbSun
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What unlikely animal friendship is caught on camera in the wild?

  • edward
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Does the Brain Create the Mind or Does the Mind Create the Brain?

  • -RA-
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Medical What causes lead and mercury poisoning in the human body?

  • hover
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Is pleasurable intercourse an evolved biological trait?

  • dratsab
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Why are protists defined by what they aren't rather than what they are?

  • TECHXHEAD
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Where does the electricity come from?

  • Molok
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How Does a New Species Reproduce After Macro-Evolution?

  • dratsab
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Medical How does steroids boost performance?

  • Skhandelwal
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How will the tragedy of the HIV epidemic effect human evolution?

  • trueuniverse
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Medical Is Religious Belief Just a Brain Anomaly?

  • Moridin
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Why do people need to sleep?

  • Math Jeans
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Theft of Painkillers - Unacceptable Actions

  • tacosareveryyum
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Why do a plant's leaves feel cool?

  • EnumaElish
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Understanding Tree and Potato Mass

  • SpicyRamen
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Bioavailability of injected resveratrol and lifespan effects in mice

  • bioquest
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Why is the Third Line of Defense in Nature Specific?

  • komal12
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Canadian soldiers invade Cleveland

  • BobG
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Medical What is that ringing sound in the head?

  • Skhandelwal
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Medical Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2007

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Role of Instrumentation / Philosophy of Science

  • pattyElken
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How can membrane potential exist if both sides are electrically neutral?

  • Spirochete
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Medical Frequency Induced Motion Sickness?

  • josht
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Hypothesis and experiments for DNA, RNA, or protein function

  • Drteeth
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Is Your Workplace Stress Giving You Blepharospasm?

  • Evo
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Medical Why did I gain 2 pounds after eating 32 oz of food and water?

  • kach22i
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Taken adderall in order to study better or focus more on a test?

  • Nothing000
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Did you ever wake up and found you were unable to move?

  • Linda
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Can organisms without senses be considered alive?

  • wolram
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Medical EM - Diseases. Is there a link?

  • SF
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Medical Is it healthy to bicycle ALL THE TIME?

  • Skhandelwal
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How do you get rid of dry and patchy skins

  • mikehudson
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Can MRI and CT scans have effects on the human body?

  • Jimmy Snyder
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Should humans influence the evolution of other species?

  • JimmyRay
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Does this mean that hairy males are more neanderthal?

  • wolram
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A small or no difference with Nitrates

  • Soley101
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Is scattered dispersion the same as random dispersion?

  • Soley101
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Medical Psychiatry how much of it is bs?

  • jammieg
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Margarine vs butter

  • Ivan Seeking
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Is it true you lose depth perception when looking out of one eye?

  • SticksandStones
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When did humans start giving animals names?

  • Ivan Seeking
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Medical What are the short-term and long-term effects of DMT on the brain?

  • LightbulbSun
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Darwin Prockop's work on cells that repair damaged cells

  • Astronuc
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Collect Spores: How to Gather + Grow Mushrooms

  • Cinimod
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Can't focus on E&M homework because of cold and cough syrup?

  • G01
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Questions about the Hershey-Chase experiment

  • moe darklight
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