Answers to Biology Questions

What is the best way to clear a car of flatulence? Is there a combination of sunroof cracking, window opening that most...

Izzie Clarke has been investigating this colourful conundrum from David.

Limonene causes the smell in both oranges and lemons: why don't they smell alike?

Why do plants produce oil?

Do chillies burn both ways?

Why do herbivores have such diverse poos?

How to plants move so quickly and trap flies?

Why do mints make you feel cold, and chilies make you feel hot?

Can you do genetic testing on trees to find out which individual trees are related?

The "flying hypodermic" can pass on malaria, but what about AIDS?

what changes in your body from start to finish?

Are hairy men better at producing babies?

Will someone in the Arctic circle be less sensitive than someone in Australia?

We test our panelists' knowledge of their fruit and veg...

What's the cause of the splitting headache we sometimes get when eating something cold?

What is the plant version of a stem cell?

Or is there something else in the natural world that trumps it?

How quickly does your cup of tea get through your body?

If an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, but birds are dinosaurs, what the heck is going on?

How do critters procreate under the waves?

How great is the damage humans are causing to the oceans by discharging so many chemicals and excreted drugs into them?

If apes have brown eyes why do we have many different colours?

If cats can't see red light, why do they chase lasers so much?

What percentage of the atoms we are born with, do we die with?