Why is tinfoil not burning when taken out of the oven?

Question sent by REMEI CALABUIG (Albaida, Valencia). EDUARDO MARTÍNEZ answers: The burning sensation is a sensory reaction to a process of heat transfer from a

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Issue 68 of Mètode, «After the Crisis», now available to everyone on its online edition. This issue has been published in full in our

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Why do fish have nostrils if they can’t smell in the water?

Question sent by NURIA MARCO (Valencia). ESTER DESFILIS answers: Although it may seem strange, fish can smell and, actually, they have a very good sense

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© MÈTODE Mètode’s website, which was updated last year by the magazine, has consolidated as a popular science

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© MÈTODE Science's Method gathers the articles from the monographs published in 2011: from Elective Affinities (issue 68) to Beloved Botany (issue

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Why does milk overflow when it boils while water doesn’t?

Question sent by JORDI PORTAVELLA (La Garriga, Barcelona). FERNANDO SAPIÑA answers: Dear Jordi, Milk is a fluid segregated by the female mammary glands of the

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Do these beetles have oral sex?

By the window of a country house I found two celeoptera performing an incomprehensible dance for me: the female was licking the tip of

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Why are the days of the week ordered the way they are?

Taking into account that each day of the week is dedicated to a wandering star easily visible, why is the order Moon - Mars

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What does an air carnation live on?

Question sent by ALBA CERVERÓ (Valencia). ISABEL MATEU answers: Air carnations belong to the botanic genus of Tillandsia from the family of Bromiliceae, to which

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At Mètode we want to satisfy your scientific curiosity with a new section— «Mètode's Whys and Wherefores»—

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