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  1. Are Apple Cores Poisonous? | Science Questions - The Naked Scientists

    Sep 26, 2010 · Apple seeds contain about 700 milligrams of cyanide per kilo, so about 100 grams of apple seeds should be enough to dispatch a 70-kg adult human, but that's an awful lot of apple cores …

  2. Are apple cores poisonous? | Podcasts | Naked Scientists

    Sep 27, 2010 · Apple seeds contain about 700 milligrams of cyanide per kilo, so about 100 grams of apple seeds should be enough to dispatch a 70-kg adult human, but that's an awful lot of apple cores …

  3. Why was cyanide a common poison? | Science Questions

    Feb 4, 2020 · So apple pips, for example, will contain it and apricot pips, but you do need to have a ridiculous amount before it's going to do you any harm. Chris - I think we calculated you'd have to eat …

  4. Telling the future with apples | Interviews

    Dec 22, 2020 · For example, you take an apple and cut it in half on Christmas Eve, but not along the vertical axis, like you’d normally do, but horizontally, and take a look at the core. Adam - We’ve a …

  5. The science that defined 2024 | Podcasts

    Dec 27, 2024 · Another recent example is Apple intelligence, and this is Apple's foray into generative AI. And it's exactly this model that they're embedding large language model technology in particular …

  6. Where is gravity the strongest? | Science Questions

    Mar 27, 2011 · Where on the Earth would you experience the strongest and weakest gravity?

  7. Chernobyl's dome damaged | Interviews - The Naked Scientists

    Dec 12, 2025 · The UN’s nuclear watchdog has said the protective shield built around the Chernobyl site in Ukraine can no longer do its job to confine radioactive waste there. The dome - which was built …

  8. Are cooked fruits less nutritious? | Questions | Naked Scientists

    Mar 12, 2019 · I think I calculated that you'd have to eat about 54 kg of apples before you actually got a fatal dose of amygdalin to wipe out a human but there is still cyanide in the pips so maybe don't eat …

  9. What is the treatment for molluscum contagiosum?

    Jul 29, 2011 · Rubber gloves (disposable) Step one - Put pair of gloves on, pick you first target. Get the lesion UNDER your thumbs so that the core of it is between your nails, pull up and squeeze until the …

  10. How did AI advance in 2024? | Interviews - The Naked Scientists

    Dec 27, 2024 · That's what they're for. They're for processing graphics. But around about 2012, it was realized that exactly that technology was ideal for training neural networks, neural networks being the …