209 words ELI5: How does RT-PCR test work?
209 words eli5 When countries swap prisoners how are they sure the other country will actually do it?
179 words ELI5: Why is it considered unhealthy if someone is overweight even if all their blood tests, blood pressure, etc. all come back at healthy levels?
152 words ELI5: Why do hangovers get worse the older you get?
129 words ELI5: How did people in history manage to draw accurate maps?
112 words Eli5: Why do people from the USA (and not only from there)consider the word American to only refer to their country?
131 words ELI5: The other day, i saw a post on here about how harddrives dont get heavier when information is stored on them, which made me think: do our brains get heavier with the accumulation of information?
118 words ELI5: What exactly happened with Game Stop's stocks a few months ago?
155 words Eli5 - Why does the world need different currencies? Why can't we use a universal one?
151 words ELI5: what does it mean to be “meta” about something?
147 words ELI5- Is it possible, or is it happening already, that monkeys are evolving into humans?
169 words ELI5 - why do animated shows turn movies (simpsons, spongebob, rugrats, bob’s burgers, etc.) have a distinct look compared to their tv show? why not keep the same look the tv show is known for?
121 words ELI5 Why do horrible smells seem to linger longer in the nose than pleasant smells?
319 words ELI5 so nuclear reactors generate power by splitting atoms but what actually splits these atoms?
348 words ELI5: Infinite monkey theorem, how is it possible
218 words ELI5: How does probability work in real life?
140 words ELI5: why do error messages go like "install failure error 0001" instead of telling the user what's wrong
154 words ELI5:Why is there a labor shortage when unemployment is low?
438 words ELI5 Bayes theorem and conditional probability example.
144 words ELI5: How would I make penicillin from bread mold?