15 What (if anything at all) would you infer about a professor (particularly in computer science, statistics, and STEM in general) who hasn't published a paper in two years?

16 Scientists didn't need funding before 1890. Why do they need funding so badly today?

17 What was the most dangerous experiment ever conducted?

18 Can anyone in recent time be a successful physicist while being somewhat isolated from the physics world (for example: Einstein being in patent office)?

19 Why can't we nuke a celestial object in our Solar System (like one of the moons of giant planets or asteroids) and study their internal structure?

20 What are the weirdest things people have done in the name of science?

21 Why do many tenured professors lose motivation to do research, even though they showed exceptional passion in their younger days?

22 When will we be able to successfully achieve nuclear fusion?

23 What is NASA's goal in sending humans to Mars despite the lack of life or water on its surface?

24 Why are some probes deliberately crashed into planets at the end of their lifetimes?

25 Why are IITs not able to perform world class research and publish papers in the top Journals of the world?

26 When the Apollo astronauts returned from the moon they were quarantined. The capsule they returned in surely also had moon dust. What measures were taken to isolate it during the quarantine period?

27 Why do surveys always ask if I've been to McGrath, Alaska?

28 Is IISc still research oriented?

29 Have they ever tested human drug effects on octopus?

30 Why can't a successful mathematician like Terence Tao buy his time out of teaching and focus completely on research?

31 What tests on aging have been done on lab rats?

32 Why is a postdoc indeed a needed step post-PhD?

33 Is it true that a pair of kilogram masses a meter apart will come together due to gravity in about a week if they are magnetically levitated?

34 Where does CERN get its particles for its experiments?

35 Which scientific breakthroughs can we realistically expect to witness in the next 50 years?

36 What was the scientific value of the Kola superdeep hole?

37 What would happen if hundreds of bacteria lived together?

38 Did NASA send astronauts to the moon six times in a row? If so, why did they do this so many times in a relatively short period and then simply stop sending astronauts to the Moon? Why haven't they built a NASA space lab on the Moon by now?

39 What are the signs that show you will not succeed as a PhD?

40 Why can’t we start sending rovers and probes to Titan since it is so earth-like? Is NASA afraid of finding life?

41 Fossils don’t show how much fat an animal had on them so how do we know all dinosaurs didn’t look like hippos?

42 Escape velocity from the Sun is 42.1 km/s, but Voyager 2's maximum recorded speed is 16 km/s. How did it reach interstellar space? What am I missing?

43 Were the remaining missions after the first man to land on the moon just a show off?

44 How can scientists tell if an ancient human or animal survived an injury just by looking at their bones?

45 Physics: Chinese scientists claimed definitive discovery on anti-matter. Why did this not trigger a sensation like the gravity wave detection?

46 Why have we not sent space probes to take a “top down” view of our solar system?

47 How is the the laser ranging retroreflector experiment left on the moon's surface by Apollo's astronauts able to continue working so well after so many years of being unprotected on Earth's moon?

48 Why should the public support black hole research?

49 What are some of the most shocking findings from the investigation of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster?

50 Why haven't we had another scientific revolution in physics yet? Hasn't it been long enough since general relativity and quantum mechanics?

51 Besides the Phoenix Lights, what is the next most compelling UFO incident in the last 25 years?

52 What do scientists hope to accomplish by building a neutrino detector?

53 Why do we still know so little about the brain despite all the advancements in neuroscience?

54 Why is cancer research such a big failure?

55 What are some examples of the academic underworlds?

56 Why don't scientists develop a syringe of the same caliber as mosquito proboscises?

57 Why is China drilling the deepest holes into Earth?

58 How old is the crack on the Moon? On my research, I found out it's 1388 years old, but I believe much older than that.

59 How many papers did you need to publish before you received a faculty position offer?

60 What should we expect to find when we finally send a probe to study Venus' surface?

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