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Can You Learn To Roll Your Rs? | IFLScience We Have Questions
20 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
My name is Laura, and I have a confession to make: I cannot roll my Rs. Now, as a native speaker of English, you might not think this would majorly im...
Why Is Modern Life So Exhausting? How Metrics Kill The Thrill Of Winning
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Modern life is exhausting. If you’re not behind on your emails, then there’s the endless calls that could’ve been an email. Reminders that you h...
Which Animals Have The Worst Table Manners?
23 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine yourself in a restaurant like no other: at the table beside you, two owls are on a date. There’s an anteater dining solo over in the corne...
What Do Other Worlds Smell Like?
23 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
IFLScience visited the Space: Could Life Exist Beyond Earth exhibition at the Natural History Museum, London, recently and we were curious to come a...
How Can Swimming For 37 Hours Help Tackle Ocean Plastic?
26 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022, a new world record was set in the waters off Grand Cayman in the western Caribbean Sea. I, a once avid collector of the Guinness World Record...
How Did Frogs Become A Pregnancy Test For Humans?
22 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People were finding out they were pregnant via frogs until the 1960s. We all know that many of the tools in human life have been inspired by nature’...
Can Sheep Livers Predict The Future?
24 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to predict the future by slicing open a farm animal and peering inside its liver? Scientists of the 21st century would surely be skepti...
Burying Scientists Alive in the Snow
20 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Polar Bears International (PBI) is serious about protecting bears, and in the pursuit of reliable data have gone to some extremes in the past. From bu...
Can Transplants Change Your Personality?
22 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a strange phenomenon reported among some recipients of organ transplants whereby people report altered memories, tastes, and personality cha...
Do Humans Have Pheromones?
25 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Humans smell, there’s no denying it, but are some of those smells sending out chemical signals we aren’t consciously aware of? Are we, like ants, ...
Why Are Yawns Contagious?
21 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s perhaps one of the greatest injustices of human bodily functions that the yawn has become so stigmatized in social settings. Crack one out and ...
Can We Preserve A Human Brain For Upload (And Why Aren't Transplants An Option)?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When we talk about death, we often say things along the lines of “it's a fact of life,” but the view can be very different when you’re facing th...
Why Does Snow Sometimes Look Blue?
23 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Snow is beautiful, but also powerful and destructive – and, if we’re honest, a bit confusing. For something made entirely of water, it can come in...
Why Don’t Animals Have To Brush Their Teeth?
26 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Wake up? Brush your teeth. Going to bed? Brush your teeth. The dental routine of being a human can be a bit monotonous, but it’s an important step t...
What Happens To Eyes During The Mummification Process?
18 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The mummification process is perhaps one of the most talked about aspects of Ancient Egyptian life. It highlights the morbid curiosity shared by those...
How Do You Rediscover A “Lost” Species?
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
DNA analysis confirmed in 2023 that a trapdoor spider lost to science had been rediscovered in the Portuguese village it was named after following a 9...
Why Do Humans Play Games?
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stick two humans in an enclosed space with nothing to do, and before long, someone is likely to suggest a game of I Spy. Kids are so hot for smartphon...
How Do You Begin Searching For Alien Life?
20 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From the brain-exploding Martians of Mars Attacks! to the wonderful diversity of Men In Black’s extraterrestrial entourage, the possibility of alien...
What Attacks You In The Most Remote Place On Earth?
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Point Nemo is the most remote place on Earth, the coordinates where – most of the time – the nearest humans are those occasionally whizzing overhe...
The Biggest Wild Goose is... Poisonous?
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Geese are famously aggressive animals whose sassy attitude appears to be crucial to their social rank. Large in size with peculiar "geese teeth", they...
What's It Like Working In A Human Tissue Bank?
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes surgeons need to remove parts of our bodies to make them healthy, but where do those sections of human go? They can be destroyed, but other ...
How Do Sunken Cities End Up Underwater?
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Submerged settlements, also known as sunken cities, might sound mythical but they are very real, and while their migration underwater makes them harde...
Introducing 'We Have Questions' Our New Science Podcast
10 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Join IFLScience as we explore the questions nobody thought to ask but everyone wants the answers to. Get the behind-the-scenes conversations from CURI...