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What does it mean when someone says an artificial sweetener 'spikes insulin'? Also, if you're consuming a bunch of carbs along with it, is that such a bad thing?

Submitted by Frangiblepani t3_z8ohtb on November 30, 2022 at 10:52 AM

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How could smuggling gold into a country with a struggling currency negatively impact its economy?

Submitted by JovialNarcissist t3_z6b2zf on November 27, 2022 at 8:06 PM

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Why are saurischians (lizard-hipped) and ornithiscians (bird-hipped) named as such when literally all birds (and the things they are closely related to) are saurischians and herbivorous dinosaurs that are anything but bird-like are considered bird-hipped?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_ywuejq on November 16, 2022 at 2:09 PM

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Why don't barnacles or seaweed grow on sea turtles as on seaboats? (all the rescue videos of turtles overgrown with stuff are fake glued on by upvote farms)

Submitted by SvenAERTS t3_yszlyc on November 12, 2022 at 7:22 AM

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If one conjoined twin takes drugs, will the other twin also feel the effects?

Submitted by youowemethreedollars t3_yngwb0 on November 6, 2022 at 4:45 AM

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Will consuming cannabis before a brain MRI affect the results?

Submitted by Aluhar_Gdx t3_z8irfi on November 30, 2022 at 5:41 AM

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Which species of dinosaurs had feathers, and how much do we know about them?

Submitted by chaosperfect t3_z8dlac on November 30, 2022 at 1:55 AM

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How does exit area for a rocket nozzle affect thrust?

Submitted by jofwu t3_y9bjct on October 20, 2022 at 10:08 PM

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When and how was special relativity integrated into QM/QFT?

Submitted by YouSchee t3_yi319x on October 31, 2022 at 6:39 AM

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Are proteins used inside the nucleus of eukaryotic cells synthesised outside the nucleus (like other proteins) and transported back inside the nucleus? I had things like histones and transcription factors in mind when I thought of this question. Many thanks

Submitted by scuba_dooby_doo t3_y54ndv on October 16, 2022 at 1:52 AM

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How are quantized vectors vectors?

Submitted by [deleted] t3_y43hbo on October 14, 2022 at 7:52 PM

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Has an animal species ever gone extinct from a naturally occurring disease?

Submitted by Jan_Sobasedski t3_y3eg5c on October 14, 2022 at 12:06 AM

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Does the brain stores information on a volatile or persisted way? If all brain activity shut off, would any memory still exist in case it turn on again?

Submitted by Josysclei t3_y2ppj8 on October 13, 2022 at 4:51 AM

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Does air sink in water at the bottom of challenger deep?

Submitted by Cedar- t3_y1w01p on October 12, 2022 at 6:13 AM

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Would it be possible to calculate the total (historical) carbon footprint of a big festival, like Glastonbury?

Submitted by AllThingsAreReady t3_y1dva4 on October 11, 2022 at 4:45 PM

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Could CRISPR transform a mouse stem cell to a human stem cell?

Submitted by scrooch t3_xzfe6h on October 9, 2022 at 7:24 AM

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What counts as "observation" in quantumn theory?

Submitted by Iron_Rod_Stewart t3_xy7u8l on October 7, 2022 at 7:25 PM

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In what ways do sperm change as someone gets older? Or will a 15y/o produce basically the same offspring as a 60y/o (disbarring fertility issues)

Submitted by licking-windows t3_xxj5iw on October 6, 2022 at 11:08 PM

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How is the size of giant fungal organisms determined?

Submitted by whittily t3_yea30l on October 26, 2022 at 9:52 PM

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How much does the size of an animal impact whether it is cold or warm Blooded?

Submitted by Xerrostron t3_xtuh86 on October 2, 2022 at 5:27 PM

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What would happen if you diverted a river into a volcano?

Submitted by OldTiredGamer86 t3_xtcxe8 on October 2, 2022 at 2:19 AM

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Now that the appendix's usefulness has been discovered, isn't it dangerous to deliberately remove it? or try to heal him in another way. Does a person without an appendix have a permanently bad microbiota?

Submitted by RetroStationGas t3_11zq0py on March 23, 2023 at 4:46 PM

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How do astronauts deal with periods in ISS?

Submitted by LorDzkill t3_11zppyq on March 23, 2023 at 4:35 PM

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People who lift weights are told to drink plenty of water, because "muscles need lots of water." But what exactly are the muscles doing with the water?

Submitted by LongSong333 t3_125sj1f on March 29, 2023 at 4:08 PM

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Why have many plants evolved to need nitrogen-rich soil, when there is so much nitrogen freely available in they air they use anyway?

Submitted by runningchild t3_11urstc on March 18, 2023 at 3:45 PM

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