Q&A

At BBC Science Focus Magazine, our expert panel is ready to help you out and answer as many of the burning science questions you want to send our way. So if you are looking for answers to the Universe’s biggest questions (maybe) or just some fun science facts (definitely) you have found the right spot.

What is polarised light? © PiccoloNamek, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/), via Wikimedia Commons

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What is polarised light?

How do laxatives work? © Dan Bright

How do laxatives work?

Why are flamingos pink? © Getty Images

Why are flamingos pink?

Why do some birds hop and others walk? © Getty Images

Why do some birds hop and others walk?

Why do cats purr? © Getty

Why do cats purr?

How can I see the Leonid meteor shower this week? © Getty Images

How can I see the Pleiades star cluster?

Can a planet orbit backwards compared to the other planets in a solar system? © Alamy

Can a planet orbit backwards compared to the other planets in a solar system?

Absolutely everything you want to know about dinosaurs © Getty

Absolutely everything you want to know about dinosaurs

Could there be fossils on Mars? © Dan Bright

Could there be fossils on Mars?

How do we calculate distances to other galaxies? © NASA/Hubble Space Telescope

How do we calculate distances to other galaxies?

Scientifically, could love count as an addiction? ©

Scientifically, could love count as an addiction?

Is fish actually ‘brain food’? © Dan Bright

Is fish actually ‘brain food’?

The top 10 happiest countries in the world © Dan Bright

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The top 10 happiest countries in the world

Why do we sleep? © Getty Images

Why do we sleep?

The Allende meteorite, a slice of which is seen here, contains nine minerals never seen on Earth, including panguite © NASA

How can we tell that a meteorite has come from a particular planet?