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  2. Why are there no lobsters in the Pacific? - Naked Scientists

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    Answer. Helen - Well, I'm afraid in fact that there are lobsters in the Pacific... In fact, there are various different species of spiny lobsters which don't have big claws like the American lobster, Homerus americanus, which does have big claws. That's one from the Atlantic. But there are some spiny lobsters, including the California or red ...

  3. Why is blood red? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists

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    Answer. The reason blood is red is because it's got iron in it. If you look down a microscope at blood, what you'll see are thousands of tiny little red cells that are referred to as bi-concave discs. If you look at them from the side, they look like a number eight and that's because they've got a thick ring round the edge and a flattened ...

  4. Why don't red blood cells have DNA? - Naked Scientists

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    Immature red blood cells actually do have a nucleus but when they differentiate to become the mature red blood cells the nucleus is actually ejected, so they have no nucleus and no DNA. As to why this is and how they function, I think the answer is really lies in what they do. Red blood cells, their only real job is to carry oxygen around the body.

  5. Does red really make bulls angry? | Science Questions

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    Answer. Bulls eyes are dichromatic - they have two colour-detecting pigments in their retinae. That means they can see red, but they can also see many other colours too. But, because they are dichromats they would see colours in a similar way to a colour blind person. In other words, there's nothing special about red; it's more likely to be ...

  6. What is the scientific basis of the saying Red Sky at Night,...

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    That leaves us with red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning. Well the reason for that would be that the sun is coming up in the east, and so the clouds would also have to be in the east. Since they're likely to be blown towards you during the day, potentially bringing bad weather, that's why red sky in the morning might be a shepherd's warning.

  7. Why is the sky blue in the day and red at sunset?

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    So because it's coming through more atmosphere even more at the blue light is taken away, making the sky look even more red than it was before. So that's why you get the red colouration of the sunset. The other thing that affects this is how many particles there are in the atmosphere, so you tend to see much redder sunsets and yellower moons at ...

  8. Why do you go red when sunburnt? | Science Questions - The Naked...

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    Dying cells attract the immune system. They attract immune cells like macrophages that have to come in and eat up the dead cells. That encourages inflammation so you've got all these molecules called cytokines being produced. You've got inflammation redness, you may notice swelling as well if you get really sunburned. That's what's going on.

  9. Do regular small doses of Aspirin affect red blood cells?

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    We posed this question to Professor Peter Rothwell from the University of Oxford...Peter - If you're one of the few people who gets bleeding from your stomach on Aspirin then that can occur very slowly, without you realising it and so, a very small proportion of patients do get anaemia, but in most patients, there's no effect on the blood count.

  10. Can bulls see red? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists

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    Answer. Yes, bulls can see red but they probably can't distinguish it from green. They only have one visual pigment in that part of the spectrum, which means that they can distinguish blue from other colours, but they can't distinguish red from green. They see the world like a red-green colour deficient person.

  11. Why does red mixed with green make yellow? | Science Questions

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    Answer. When you mix paint, it's a subtractive process. You start with white, and you're putting a layer of something on top of it, which allows a certain wavelength of light through but takes away everything else. So whatever you add, it always gets darker, and changes colour in a certain way. When you mix light, you're starting with black ...