r/askscience - Page 5

194 words Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology 208 words Are Sociopaths aware of their lack of empathy and other human emotions due to environmental observation of other people? 251 words Are Sociopaths aware of their lack of empathy and other human emotions due to environmental observation of other people? 542 words Are Sociopaths aware of their lack of empathy and other human emotions due to environmental observation of other people? 181 words How much have continents moved since the dawn of civilization 12,000 years ago? 324 words Is there any evidence of mammals (besides humans) being serial killers or murdering their own species for fun? 236 words How does my phone know how much battery is left? 204 words Why do we consider it certain that radioactive decay is completely random? 185 words If you launch something into space will it go forever, or is there a point at which it would come to a halt due to the few molecules floating around out there? 258 words So does recent proof in math mean any 2 infinities are equal? 206 words How are NOAA's storm chaser planes able to fly through hurricane Irma and not go down? I'd think the propellers and/or the windows would take a serious beating. How are they designed to handle the intense wind and rain and keep the crew safe? 269 words Does writing by hand have positive cognitive effects that cannot be replicated by typing? 184 words Do radios work in Faraday cages? Could you theoretically walkie-talkie a person standing next to you while in one, or do they block radios altogether? 317 words Could evolution be responsible for decreased intelligence? 232 words Is the range of gravity infinite? Is the Earth technically (but insignificantly) helping slow the expansion of the Universe? Or does each object's.. "well" have a finite range of what it affects? 222 words Can you run away from light? 312 words When a door or window is opened in a building with A/C on a hot day, is the cold air trying to escape or is the hot air trying to enter? 381 words Is the reciprocal lattice of a crystal all points in space, that may have constructive interference, assuming the asymetric unit of the crystal is a single atom? 233 words Why can't I use lenses to make something hotter than the source itself? 251 words Are there "quantum calculations" that can make a quantum system take as long as an average supercomputer to solve?