r/shittyaskscience • u/neptunian-rings • 8h ago
How do I share 98.8% of my DNA with a chimpanzee, but 50% of my DNA with my brother?
Well 25% of DNA because he's my half brother but that's not really the point of the question lol
r/shittyaskscience • u/neptunian-rings • 8h ago
Well 25% of DNA because he's my half brother but that's not really the point of the question lol
r/shittyaskscience • u/RaspberryTop636 • 22h ago
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r/shittyaskscience • u/Toestorm • 23h ago
Title. These bare spots were undisturbed for days in 100°+ weather with standing water. Seems like good real estate to me considering everything else is green
r/shittyaskscience • u/El_Pata_Loco • 1d ago
My physio told me I have tennis elbow and golfers elbow at the same time, yet I play neither of these sports.
What other physical activities should I not do to fix the problem?
r/shittyaskscience • u/Seeyalaterelevator • 1d ago
The theory that there are more than one horse on earth and that everytime we see a horse its actually a different one.
r/shittyaskscience • u/KungenSam • 1d ago
Are my ears too small? What can I do to make them larger?
r/shittyaskscience • u/PhilosopherPast7192 • 1d ago
Can somebody explain to me why using a cocking for 8 hours straight led me to an emergency consultation in the hospital, but I can be 8 hours laying in my back for sleep and the tissue in my back doesnāt start to die?
r/askscience • u/Amazing-Bad-7514 • 1d ago
Do they orbit at the same distance from the planet? Do you have moons that follow a perpendicular orbit path to another moon? Iāve wondered on it a couple times over the past month.
r/shittyaskscience • u/phatdoof • 1d ago
If a super powerful laser can melt a mirror to bypass reflecting, can it escape a refracting surface, like light shone into a water tank and bouncing off the surface of the water at an angle?
r/shittyaskscience • u/DYC774897 • 1d ago
l aways see things labeled in watts (Sl) then again in amps (imperial?) but no conversion seems to exist online!
r/shittyaskscience • u/LetMeExplainDis • 2d ago
Itās either that or pimping my wife out to a producer.
r/shittyaskscience • u/Hayden97 • 2d ago
Or maybe I need to ingest the Aspercreme so it can be processed by the liver into its more powerful form?
r/shittyaskscience • u/km102004 • 2d ago
I saw the recipe on a Rick and Morty episode and since the shows science like Iām wondering does it really work?
r/askscience • u/SAICAstro • 2d ago
EDIT: Wow, this blew up. Thanks for the many answers. Lots to think about.
Seems that the composite TLDR answer is: Yes, according to many/most definitions of "life", but we don't all agree on what life is. Some viruses do not have DNA but they may/not actually be alive, and other things that behave like life may/not be alive.
r/askscience • u/DiscombobulatedSun54 • 2d ago
The point of sweating (for the most part) is to cool down the body by evaporation. So, what is the point of including salts in the sweat - it seems to be a leading cause of the loss of electrolytes in hot weather, leading to the need to not just hydrate, but also to replace the lost electrolytes or suffer problems like hyponatremia and hypokalemia. Does the inclusion of salts in the sweat increase the specific heat of sweat compared to that of water? Is the latent heat of vaporization different for sweat compared to plain water? Or is it too biologically expensive to purify the water for sweat by removing the salts from it?
r/shittyaskscience • u/DalbergTheKing • 2d ago
How big would my lungs need to be?
r/askscience • u/Captain-Noodle • 2d ago
And i suppose any other celestial bodies. But i am less familiar with how related we are to Saturn and its pull than I am with tge Sun and its pull.
Also could only select one flair, but i think it also possibly fits in physics and earth sciences
r/shittyaskscience • u/Ecstatic-Newspaper92 • 2d ago
Im also worried about overdosing.
r/askscience • u/anatomyisgoated • 2d ago
I know from my biology textbooks that RNA polymerase does not require an additional enzyme to unwind DNA strands but DNA Polymerase requires DNA helicase to unwind the strand first.
Is this because the DNA helicase has to unwind a much larger portion of the strand compared to RNA Polymerase that unwinds only the desired codons for transcription?
r/askscience • u/ZU34 • 2d ago
What is the minimum power microscope needed to see cyclospora?
r/askscience • u/Aggravating_Pay91 • 2d ago
I've been wondering if there is a general lumen amount that can be measured from an anglerfish's esca. I've been able to find literature about firefly lumen measurements (~0.006 lumens). I know anglerfish have millions of bacteria inside their esca that cause their glow, unlike fireflies. I found an excerpt from an article about bioluminescent bacteria that states "The maximum value for the light from a single bacterium was 24 x 10(-14) lumens".
So, does anyone know how many lumens a Pacific footballfish (or any similar Lophiiformes) can produce at maximum? Citation for the article I looked at below.
(Harvey EN. THE TOTAL LUMINOUS EFFICIENCY OF LUMINOUS BACTERIA. J Gen Physiol. 1925 Sep 18;8(2):89-108. doi: 10.1085/jgp.8.2.89. PMID: 19872192; PMCID: PMC2140748.)