- How did you discover that a broken light bulb could light up in a microwave? Do you just experiment a lot or is there a web site that lists these various ideas?
- How do clocks work? How do the gears continually move each second?
- Does coffee or caffeine always make you awake? People always tell me that, but I don't think it affects me. I consume a lot of caffeine usually, so I was thinking I'm immune to it.
- 1. how does carbonation in pop work? 2. what are all the contraptions in the lecture room on the walls?
- What causes lightning?
- How does a video tape or DVD work?
- What is 'biltong'? An alcoholic beverage A European dance Strips of dried salted meat A type of music (answer: strips of dried, salted meat)
- How does Advil work?
- why aren't people's faces symmetrical?
- what makes markers juicy?
- Why does the mean have no atmosphere?
- How do light bulbs work? What inside them make some brighter than others?
- How is lightening formed?
- How come the weather is constantly changing from beautiful, today (Tuesday) back to cold again this weekend?
- how would the skateboards be diff on ice?
- Why are some pills HUGE? I feel like I'm going to choke on them when I take it! Can't they make the pills smaller and tell customers to take 2?
- Why does everything mixed together to form concrete hold so strongly?
- What is the acceleration on the moon?
- how does a spaceship break through the gravitational force and get into space?
- What makes the wind pick up speed when it s blowing?
- Have you heard of the Mentos and Diet Coke experiment? It was really popular on YouTube a while ago. How does that work?
- How do clocks change on their own when daylight savings time occurs.
- How do cell phone chargers charge phones?
- who is daylight savings time determined?
- Is it true that some forms of air freshener really get rid of bad smells entirely? Or do they really mask them? If it really gets rid of bad scents, how does this happen?
- Why did we change our clocks ahead 1 week earlier this weekend?
- How/why does the earth have magnetic poles? What does this do?
- How do glasses/contacts work to correct our vision?
- How do you calculate the velocity of a Jet Plane ?
- what makes one guitar better than another.
- How is heat lightning formed? Is it equally as dangerous as the lightning that occurs during a thunderstorm?
- How come if you blow out a fuse with something like a blow dryer, you can just reset it and it suddenly works again? Wouldn't it be broken and you'd have to get a new "fuse"?
- what causes wind and why is it stronger in certain areas?
- How does your body produce sweat?
- Why do our stomachs' growl?
- How do waves form in the ocean?
- How does Tylenol work to cure pains such as headaches?
- Why does fat taste so good?! What is fat composed of?
- Why is well water so bad for you?
- How are we able to chew on gum for so long without it disintegrating?
- Do those cell phone extended range stickers (to give you better reception) really work??? what is it based one?
- How do geysers work?
- How do thermometers work?
- How, chemically, are artificial flavors made? They taste so much like the real thing!! (Strawberries for example)
- Is there some kind of chemical in a banana that gives you energy?
- how long do trees live?
- How do you put backspin on a golf ball?
- Who was the first scientist?
- How does the telephone work?
- Why could I feel the sun more present on my skin this week? Does that mean that my distance from the sun is actually closer?
- How are batteries recycled?
- How do people manipulate the flavor of the same beans to make both chocolate and coffee?
- Why is Champaign/Urbana so windy?
- how does a governor on a car work.
- Why did time change earlier this year?
- How do planes fly?
- Does sleeping after a meal lead to weight gain?
- Why does the sky turn red before the sun goes down?
- what is the difference between parallel and series circuits
- What is the formula for finding one's body fat? Also, why is it most accurately taken under water? How does that work?
- Why do we sleep?
- I was wondering how computers are able to access the internet.
- How do neon lights work?
- How do you program a magnetic strip?
- how do planes stay in flight?
- How do so many songs or 6 episodes of a TV show fit on one little CD or DVD?
- Why is there a lot of static electricity in the winter?
- why are some medicine tablets liquid and others aren't - is there a benefit?
- How can the temperature be 70 degrees one day and 30 degrees two days later?
- What causes skin pigmentation, especially when you go tanning?
- what makes up dust?
- How is it so warm today and supposed to be so cold again tomorrow
- Why is Champaign so windy?!!!
- i understand how gravity works, but WHY does it work? what is actually pulling us?
- What makes gum stay as one piece when chewing it?
- Is traveling in an airplane considered a form of time travel?
- How do ear plugs work?
- how can food be freeze dried, and still taste ok?
- Why are some light bulbs brighter than others?
- Is it true that if I were to travel very deep into space I would come back younger than when I left?
- How come in bowling it is better to hit the pins with a ball that is curving rather than a straight on hit?
- How do computers pick up wireless internet
- We were talking about magnetic poles in astronomy. How do the magnetic poles switch places?
- How do calculators work?
- Who was a better scientist, Newton or Einstein?