Nature
Exploring "Why" questions about Nature
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Why are rainbows always in the shape of an arch?
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Why do most buses have to stop on train tracks and open their doors?
For safety. Stopping gives a chance to see the train, and opening the doors gives an opportunity to hear the train. Pretty much every state passed laws requiring this almost 80 years ago when a [freig
Why can’t every mobile device that’s capable run the latest version of Android, but virtually every capable PC can run the latest version of Windows?
PC evolution has been very slow for the last 5 years. Mobile devices have evolved a lot during the same time.
Why is much of Europe’s climate mild when Europe is so much further North of the equator than much of North America is?
The gulf stream in the Atlantic takes warm water to Europe and cold water to North America. _URL_0_
Why do people fall into comas? What makes some people miraculously wake up all on their own?
There are a hundred reasons why someone might be in a coma, from kidney failure to infection to stroke to whatever. Some people wake up when their bodies heal from these injuries. Very rarely does som
Why are rockets launched from places like Cape Canaveral and not high up in the mountains?
Cape Canaveral has two very large advantages for launching rockets. * 1: It's near the equator, the spin of the earth gives a boost which helps get the rocket to orbital speed * 2: It's near the sea,
Why the island of Britain is called ‘Great Britain’?
"Larger Britain", from Medieval Latin Britannia Maior, first recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth, who employed it to distinguish the island from Britannia Minor ("Little Britain") or Brittany in modern F
Why don’t you get carsick when reading on trains, when you do in a car?
It's likely because in a train, almost all of your field of view is stationary relative to you. In a car, though, a significant portion of your field of view appears in motion. I've never been one of
Why and how is it that the Windows operating system hasnt been replaced?
One of the main reasons is that Microsoft makes deals with hardware manufacturers to include their OS in those products by default. This starts the cycle that makes most consumers use Windows regardle
Why do islands like these form?
Those are called barrier islands, and they are caused by receding tides dropping sediment on the oceanbed a few hundred feet to a few miles offshore. As the tide recedes into open water, the movement