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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 1

1. Evolution of the universe and multiverse
2. Pain in shrimps
3. Can I use a battery-powered electric toothbrush in the shower?

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 2

1. Will the recently found debris from missing airplane MH-370 help to locate the plane?
2. Knee anatomy
3. How do mammals that live in seawater avoid dehydration?
4. Turner syndrome

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 3

1. Locating the geographic poles of the Earth
2. What's inside the hip?
3. Impossibility fallacy
4. Why do illness symptoms vary so much
5. Head tattoo
6. DNA lipofection complexes in suspension called an "emulsion"?
7. Density of solids at extreme pressures

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 4

1. Huge southwest French spider?
2. Contemporary Technologies and the Brain
3. Does winter gasoline have higher specific energy?
4. Grumman LLV
5. Stanene's room temperature super ? conductivity
6. Maybe Nikola Tesla wasn't crazy after all ?
7. Is this a hoax, fraud or genuine revolution for hair loss treatment ?
8. Does anyone know the use of this compass?
9. Do we gain/lose self-awareness as we grow older?
10. NASA VTOL aircraft testing at Moffett Field in the 1950's

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 5

1. Can anyone identify this plant?
2. geometric plane
3. Is the length of a river well-defined?
4. 5 Alpha Reductase
5. Kidney transplant life expectancy
6. Nylander's test

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 6

1. Quiet birds
2. Egg laying
3. Disappearing wildlife
4. Can the hairs and the fingernails be regarded as a "benign growth", according to its scientific definition?
5. What prism would neither rotate nor invert an image after 90 degrees reflection?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 7

1. Ugly duckling
2. Testing theory of evolution empirically
3. Cryolipolysis - 2 questions

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 8

1. How much would oxygen density at the Empire State Building affect athletics?
2. What is the purpose of the pigments in our bodies?
3. How much CO2 is too much, and how do you calculate it?
4. What is the name of the tissue in the external brain?
5. Power plant in Mississippi

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 9

1. Direct observations of evolution of multi-cellular organisms
2. Translate in italian

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 10

1. How much would an archaeologist know about dinosaurs?
2. Cheapest source of icaridin insect repellent?
3. Scientific notation for inverse units (like per unit area or per second)
4. Dogs
5. Effects of gravity vs. simulated gravity
6. Tyre pressure

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 11

1. Can stimulating the brain really cause an orgasm?
2. How were these videos made?
3. Is there any way to isolate Citrulline from Watermelon ribs?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 12

1. ROVs
2. Chemical composition of liquid paraffin (medical type)
3. How big was the Chernobyl explosion?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 13

1. Melanin and light absorption
2. If an alien contacts you and ask what's a kg
3. The difference between 453 and 467 Hz
4. Curved spacetime

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 14

1. Stealing electricity by manipulating apparent power
2. Harnessing Light
3. E. coli long-term evolution experiment
4. A day in the solar system

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 15

1. Interfere the gyroscope
2. battery removal
3. MEIOSIS
4. Explaining detail of homework question in physics
5. Is this bad user interface design in a nuclear power plant?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 16

1. Survival rate when ejecting with ejection seats
2. What happens when the inputs to a phototransistor is shorter than its response time?
3. Mold on my toothbrush?
4. Finding news
5. How far can you smell a slaughterhouse?
6. What is that in the fridge?

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 17

1. Storks and hail
2. Why do human physical, emotional, mental peaks vary so much by study?
3. sunlight
4. mechanism of beryllium toxicity

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 18

1. Why are we still sending plastic garbage to landfills and not converting them back to oil?
2. Sunrises and sunsets in space (seen from the International Space Station)
3. An evolutionary biologist that studies biological complexity
4. Why do pigeons defecate more profusely compared to other birds like sparrows
5. Mixing water

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 19

1. Name that phobia
2. Correlation of Microwave Radiation from the Sun at Different Locations
3. Can a lens be transparent for infra-red, but opaque for visible light?
4. Food: hot or cold, which is best?

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 20

1. Natural Resources and the Environment
2. Effects of alcohol on sleep and breathing
3. no future for things like computers, mobile phones, touch tablets, will our technological advance reverse severely in the next 20-30 years?
4. Soil Desalination
5. What is a "cassette" in regard to molecular cloning/DNA?
6. Difference between remanufacturing, refurbishment and renovation
7. Proof in blood or elsewhere that a diet is working?

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 21

1. Using newspaper to prevent weeds
2. Why is it so hard to start a tear in plastic film?

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 22

1. Brunner syndrome and diet

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 23

1. Storing USB flash drives
2. Gravity Movie Reentry
3. April 2015 Nepal earthquake

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 24

1. how can any black hole move ?
2. Is this related to Pavlov's dog?
3. Soft Tissue is not an organ?

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 25

1. how can electromagnetic pulses escape from a neutron star's gravity field
2. how is the lensing strength of any neutron star , and is there any such lens has been observed
3. Time travel
4. Why do Americans get completely stoned after having their wisdom teeth out

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 26

1. Majors for people interested in agricultural mycology?
2. Why are human stools so offensive?
3. Skulls
4. Inert foodstuff for satiety whilst dieting
5. Boiling Saltwater before drinking it, does it make any difference?
6. Big Bang

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 27

1. Average size of 12 year old
2. Mixing catechol with formaldehyde and HCl
3. decay/equilibrium constant for connecting tanks of unequal pressures
4. Have we got an article on ...
5. Cosmos
6. Anapoles, Majorana fermions, dark matter, invisible silicon disks, quantum computing, the non-radiation from electrons in atoms etc.

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 28

1. Looking at Earth from Space
2. Kriegslok
3. Placing telescopes on the Moon
4. Why is skin more protective than mucosal membranes?
5. Is 3D printing really "printing"?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 29

1. Stellar sized black holes, occasional collision with supermassivemassive black holes
2. Vacuum energy
3. Some dumb questions about genetics
4. voice announcement of circuitbreaker
5. Fuel consumption of front vehicle during tailgating
6. Boot camp and circuit
7. Fitness

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 30

1. Dealing with the polarity of a DC plug
2. ROC curves
3. Does a brown dwarf ever have a rocky core?
4. Could extreme pressure increase the radioactivity of a radioactive element?