How deep is it to the centre of the Earth?
Kevin
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What is it like being a scientist?
Posted on May 28, 2008 by jennybeard
What is it like being a scientist? What expiriments have you recently done? Have you worked in a laboratory? If you have, what is it like? Do you know any scientists with wild white hair and are in a lab coat? What do you do on an average day as a scientist?
Abigail Mitchell
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How large is the universe?
Posted on April 17, 2008 by jennybeard
How large is the universe?
Collin
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Can you store the energy released from bolts of lightning?
Posted on April 17, 2008 by jennybeard
Is there any way of storing the energy released form bolts of lightning? If so why has no one tried it?
Jordan Fraser
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Are all self-portraits painted before the invention of photography, mirror images?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
Are all self-portraits painted before the invention of photography, mirror images?
Martin Grundy from Hampshire (Age 45-54)
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Can some acid burn through anything?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
Some acid can burn through anything – so why won’t it burn through the glass jars it kept in?
Harry from Buckinghamshire (age 5-14)
If acid burns stuff how can it stay in glass bottles?
Adam from Hertfordshire (age 5-14)
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When a parachute opens does the sky diver go up?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
When a parachute opens does the sky diver go up?
Rob from Gloucestershire (age 5-14)
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Why is blood red?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
Why is blood red?
Chloe Smith
Nadiya Basite from Swansea (aged 5-14)
Preston Primary School Stockton on Tees (aged 5-14)
Why is your blood red?
Rosie from West Midlands (age 5-14)
Why does our blood turn red when it touches oxygen?
Autumn Marie Taylor from Kent (age 5-14)
Sherylin McCarthy from Kent (age 5-14)
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Why does white paper appear white?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
If you stand out in the open on a grass-green meadow under a blue sky with your back to the sun, why does a white piece of paper, held in the shade of your body but still in the, supposed, blue-scattered-light; from the sky, still appear white? Is this because the eye colour-corrects to see white, why doesn’t it see the sky as white aswell?
Chris Bradley
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Why is there salt in sea water?
Posted on March 25, 2008 by jennybeard
Why is there salt in sea water?
Francesca Josephson
Why is the sea salty?
Bluebell class from Kent (Age 5-14)
Hannah Tyler from Kent (age 5-14)
Eagles Class from Kent (age 5-14)
Filed under: Age Unknown, Answered Big Questions, Chemistry Big Questions, Environment & Natural World Big Qs | 1 Comment »
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