- ELI5: Why do some animals (like spiders or lizards) spend so much time just doing nothing? What is happening and why? - 1 hour
- ELI5: If I enter a password wrong thrice, the system locks me out. How are hackers able to attempt millions of combinations of passwords without the - 1 hour
- ELI5 How are modern fruits better than supplements? - 1 hour
- eli5 How does our eyeball get rid of small particles that went into it? - 3 hours
- ELI5: If thousands of cars drive on the interstates (US) daily, how does the road not wear down so fast? - 4 hours
- ELI5: In countries with universal healthcare insurance, why does healthcare insurance exist? (because everyone pays the same price) - 4 hours
- ELI5: if redwood is naturally rot resistant, why can't we grow redwoods to build our buildings? - 4 hours
- ELI5 How do spiders survive the winter? - 4 hours
- ELI5: Can anyone explain what is wrong with our current understanding of the universe? - 5 hours
- ELI5: Norden Bomb sight - 5 hours
- ELI5: if fruit is sweet to encourage animals to eat it and carry the seeds away from the parent tree, how do lemons and limes fit into this mix? - 6 hours
- ELI5: How do mechanical and electrical engineers work together to create things and understand each other - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why does your body feel physically ill after experiencing emotional trauma? - 7 hours
- ELI5: Why do cereal stay crunchy for relative longer when drenched in milk compared to regular cookies that just go soggy almost instantly - 8 hours
- Eli5 Why does frying food make it unhealthy? - 8 hours
- ELI5: Unconscionable contracts - 8 hours
- Eli5: Why is it so hard to get the same results, suchas thrust/speed, with an engine that delivers power to a propeller instead of a wheel? - 10 hours
- ELI5: why do we puke when we're sick? - 10 hours
- ELI5: Is running at an incline on a treadmill really equivalent to running up a hill? - 11 hours
- ELI5: "If the placebo effect operates by fooling the brain, why does it require deception if the brain can supposedly resolve the problem - 11 hours
- ELI5: Would it be illegal for a EULA to include, and enforce shocking terms such as "you accept to give us a kidney"? - 11 hours
- Eli5 Why do kids not need knee pads while crawling around on the floor? - 12 hours
- ELI5: What occurs if no one activates aeroplane mode on a commercial flight? - 12 hours
- eli5 Why do the kidneys get damaged when you dont drink enough water? - 13 hours
- ELI5 Why do british people use "ae" instead of "e" in some words such as encyclopaedia or paedophilia - 13 hours
- ELI5: how can our brains remember that we forgot something, but it can’t remember what we forgot - 14 hours
- ELI5: What is a “short term” relationship? - 14 hours
- ELI5 how do they film sex scenes in movies, especially in shots where it seems like actors are clearly having sex (question triggered after watching - 15 hours
- Eli5 what is solipsism? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why does hearing yourself speak with a few seconds of delay, completely crash your brain? - 15 hours
- ELI5: why didn't Mark Whatney in 'The Martian' die of radiation poisoning? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Why do people’s voices sound so much higher in recordings when compared to real life? - 15 hours
- ELI5: Who pays when shareholders sue their own company? - 17 hours
- ELI5: How does the brain structure of autistic people differ? - 17 hours
- Eli5 how come time goes by faster when your sleep - 17 hours
- ELI5: How do birds not crash into each other? - 17 hours
- ELi5: When a baby is born, how are their lungs instantly able to breathe air if they haven't been breathing air for 9 months? - 17 hours
- ELI5: Why was hydrogen the first atom in the universe? - 17 hours
- ELI5,Why do certain memories feel as if they occurred recently rather than a long time ago? - 18 hours
- Eli5 “Running payroll” - 18 hours
- eli5: What is surface tension? - 18 hours
- Eli5: How is lead entering the body? - 18 hours
- ELI5 the science behind solving a Rubik’s cube through the pattern, and how record breakers do it so accurately - 19 hours
- ELI5, why the international space station isn't high up in the orbit at least at a few 1000s miles away, not the 250 it's right now? - 19 hours
- ELI5: Why do creatures only grow to certain sizes? - 20 hours
- eli5: Do voice actors/actresses get to see the actual animated film during voice recording? - 20 hours
- eli5: Is it me or is it a lot easier to get sunburnt in the past 2-3 years? - 20 hours
- ELI5: How, at 93 million miles away, does the sun feel so warm, yet when a simple cloud passes over it the warmth is incredibly dampened? - 21 hours
- ELI5, why when the international space station is only 250miles away does it take at least 4 hours to get there? - 22 hours
- eli5 Why aren't nuclear ships more popular? - 22 hours
- ELI5: the 'processed' in processed foods and why they're less healthy - 22 hours
- eli5, help me clean a reptile tank with heat or hydrogen peroxide - 24 hours
- ELI5: the Gameboy had a cheat cartridge called GameShark that allowed cheating in GB games. How did it work? - 24 hours
- ELI5: why does Oregon have a much smaller population/economy than Washington? - 25 hours
- ELI5: "How do people actually die from Alzheimer?" - 25 hours
- ELI5 Why are people in old media not attractive compared to modern media? - 25 hours
- ELI5: How did people make more precise instruments using less precise instruments? - 26 hours
- ELI5: How come all those atomic bomb tests were conducted during 60s in deserts in Nevada without any serious consequences to environment and humans? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why is it so hard to replicate the bulding of a nuclear bomb and why only a small amount of countires have them? - 26 hours
- ELI5: Why do burns grow with infants that were severely burned? - 27 hours
- ELI5: "Why aren't bamboo products, like toilet paper and paper towels, noticeably cheaper compared to their tree-based alternatives?" - 27 hours
- ELI5: How is it safe to eat ants but not food that ants have touched? - 27 hours
- Eli5 Are my brakes really supposed to screech whenever the weather gets cold? And if yes, may I get an explanation why?! - 28 hours
- Eli5 why black coffee is healthy for liver? - 28 hours
- Eli5: Why do humans shrink as they get older? Why do humans get wrinkles on their arms if they aren’t creased all the time? - 28 hours
- ELI5: Why is duck meat red meat and can be consumed medium rare and chicken meat white meat which should be cooked thoroughly even though they're - 29 hours
- ELI5 - If you’re sick, how can you be coughing up a storm while awake and not cough at all while sleeping? - 29 hours
- ELI5 How do biologist know if they found a new plant? - 29 hours
- ELI5: I'm sitting at airport arrivals. Why does a plane 100ft+ above me shake the car/ground? - 31 hours
- ELI5 Why do people feel very hungry after smoking marijuana? - 31 hours
- ELI5: Can someone explain multiple regression? - 31 hours
- Eli5: How do we know you’re getting whats in products when they are blends? - 31 hours
- eli5: How will we produce plastics after oil is depleted? - 31 hours
- ELI5: How does the Linux "Wine" algorithm work - 32 hours
- ELI5: How can a rental market in a place like Scranton, PA be strong despite the city population falling by half over the past 50 years? - 32 hours
- ELI5: Why can't people create violins as great as the Stradivarius? - 32 hours
- eli5 How does a travel agency work? - 33 hours
- Eli5: Spring on 1st property! - 33 hours
- ELI5 How do injunctions work in the media? - 34 hours
- Eli5: do kangaroo’s actually box - 35 hours
- ELI5 Why are the computers that control traffic lights so large and complex? - 36 hours
- ELI5: How is it that people can understand a language but not speak it? - 38 hours
- ELI5: What exactly causes the BANG! sound in a gun? - 38 hours
- ELI5 What's the difference between stocks, bonds and mutual funds? - 38 hours
- eli5: What is it about cancer cells that allow them to migrate to other tissues of the body and "grow" on tissues that are different from - 39 hours
- ELI5: Why does it feel uneasy in the chest when you eat something spicy or oily and not in the stomach? - 39 hours
- ELI5: If my clothes are made from recycled water bottles, how do they not melt in the dryer? - 40 hours
- ELI5: What is the difference of Inhibitory postsynaptic potential vs antagonist? - 40 hours
- ELI5: How are different dosages medication pills made? - 40 hours
- ELI5: Why is the weather forecast still so hit and miss? - 41 hours
- eli5 how does does electric current becomes smart to the point of making computers? - 41 hours
- ELI5- The Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar - 41 hours
- eli5: how did PEMDAS came to be? what decided this order and rule? - 41 hours
- ELI5: Why do humans need to eat ridiculous amounts of food to build muscle, but Gorillas are way stronger by only eating grass and fruits? - 41 hours
- ELI5: If rubber comes from nature, why isn't it biodegradable? - 42 hours
- eli5: Why is Europe so dominant throughout history despite its small size and low population? - 42 hours
- ELI5 When we delete things from our phone, where do they go? - 42 hours
- ELI5 why does it feel so “good” for a few hours after finishing an intense workout? - 42 hours
- ELI5: what does a film producer do? - 42 hours
- ELI5: If I’m selling a house right now, do I still have to pay the buyer’s agent fee? - 43 hours
- eli5: Why does rolling on a lacrosse ball help muscle pain? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why Aren't E-filed Tax Returns Processed Instantly? - 43 hours
- Eli5: why do reflection and refraction happen? - 43 hours
- ELI5: When driving a new car, how do you judge how far the front bumper is from the curb while pulling in to a parking spot? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Why are peanuts allergy so common in westernized countries? - 43 hours
- ELI5: Regarding “light clocks” and how moving clocks run slow: Does this mean that, if you were on the ISS or some other satellite, clocks on - 45 hours
- ELI5 What makes a performance car road legal or not? - 46 hours
- ELI5: How do straws work? Like how does water go up the straw against its own weight and the pull of gravity? - 46 hours
- [ELI5] what is rent-seeking, and why are we seeing more of it? - 47 hours
- ElI5: If earth is moving through space at 67000mph why does it look stationery from space? - 47 hours
- ELI5: How do projectors and screens show the color black if black is the absence of light? - 47 hours
- ELI5: does “ 12.8 lbs “ mean 12 lbs and 8oz, or does it actually mean 12.8 lbs, which would be around 12 lbs and 12oz? - 47 hours
- ELI5: Why do we become more aware of our heartbeat in certain situations, even when the actual heart rate probably has not changed? - 48 hours
- ELI5:How is cardiac output equal to venous return if ejection fraction exists? - 48 hours
- [ELI5] Why did the French Revolution begin? - 48 hours