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June 1

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 1

  1. Apparent anomaly
  2. What are the black cylinders hanging from the wires across telephone poles?
  3. What year is this? (in another year numbering system)
  4. Pound-mass and pound-force?
  5. Monoperoxoboric acid and Sodium peroxoborate
  6. Particle accelerator
  7. How to efficiently get data for alignment from Ensemble?
  8. Confused about quantum mechanics
  9. Rye from Wheat

June 2

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 2

  1. Help with snake identification, peculiar feature
  2. List of Tropical cyclone names that were retired after only one use?
  3. Escherichia_coli
  4. EHEC
  5. Immune system response to vaccine
  6. gravity
  7. Diamonds
  8. Cutting a moving object in half
  9. how much butter
  10. Fractal antenna for TV ?
  11. The easiest, simplest, most "populistic" way to prove to a person the earth is older than 6000 years old?

June 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 3

  1. E. Coli Outbreak
  2. Countermeasures against RFID
  3. How much calories does it burn?
  4. Creating phylogenetic trees
  5. Finding the source of the German E. Coli outbreak
  6. Assisted suicide vs. euthanasia
  7. relationship between forces
  8. Sideways gravity
  9. Could the E. Coli outbreak be the result of a bio-terror attack?
  10. Organs to donate
  11. A beatiful question about Parrots and their voice producing system..

June 4

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 4

  1. Htrae
  2. Water
  3. What species is this fungi?
  4. anatomy
  5. DC vs AC
  6. How to check for signs of life in a non-pulsatile person
  7. Calibrating length markers for micrographs?
  8. EHEC again, receptor
  9. Sleep in older people
  10. 3 questions about Endocrinology

June 5

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 5

  1. Foods S.PROVEN to include Somatotropin?
  2. Please help me identify unknown bacteria
  3. Half-life of Proton-AntiNeutron bound state
  4. EHEC, and now it's biogas
  5. What is the name of alkane that has 1000 and 10000 carbon atoms?
  6. Hair colour
  7. East and west reversed when looking at the Moon?
  8. Force = mass x ____
  9. WKD colour loss
  10. Sound-guided missiles
  11. Safety of BPA-free plastic water bottles

June 6

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 6

  1. To charge a phone on a bicycle
  2. Earthquake tilting Earth axis
  3. What are the materials of Polyethylene terephthalate
  4. Global Warming – Why Predominantly Negative Effects?
  5. Is it right that.. (Talking birds)
  6. radiation from magnets
  7. Brightness of R136a1 when it goes hypernova
  8. excited states / energy level diagram of nitrogen
  9. Desert basins
  10. Rotational physics
  11. Ionic liquids
  12. Sleep and endurance athletes

June 7

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 7

  1. Bowel and bladder control with ALS
  2. Mechanism of rotating gas cloud round gravity center
  3. grouping and cross-matching in blood bank
  4. How healthful is this bread?
  5. Physics Is Phun!

June 8

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 8

  1. Red/white poppy flowers
  2. Stomach and food poisoning
  3. Exercise and rest
  4. Animal Testing
  5. Four wheel drive..... and two wheel drive
  6. A king cobra question
  7. How to compound risk factors
  8. gold nuggets
  9. conservation at the amino acid level is evil
  10. explanation about metallic solids
  11. how does diamond crystal look on the surface?
  12. Which way around is the Moon in the sky?
  13. Solder
  14. anaphyalactic shock
  15. nuclear power reactor
  16. "The design of an idiot"

June 9

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 9

  1. Small flows of water
  2. Gauss's Law for Electric Fields
  3. Second coming of Christ & research support
  4. Bootstrapping differential Manchester encoding
  5. Infinity and superconductivity
  6. Coulomb's Law
  7. Adrenaline sensing anti-perspirant/deodorant
  8. science
  9. Earmarking Human Infants at Birth
  10. Safety on stairs
  11. "Cotton intended for food use"
  12. Electron spin
  13. color perception different in each eye
  14. Good cholesterol

June 10

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 10

  1. Avian body odour?
  2. Hijacking a ride on a comet
  3. Do pigs have orgasms that last for thirty minutes?
  4. Same weight or not?
  5. Electric signal
  6. Question about prisms
  7. Re; Electro Mechanical Spectrum
  8. Isotopes
  9. Electron diffraction
  10. Echolocation in cats?
  11. Bookbinding question

June 11

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 11

  1. Eye muscles
  2. The klein bottle as a musical instrument
  3. Navigation in space
  4. Infinite vs. infinite
  5. Low earth orbit
  6. Plasticisers and incineration
  7. Principles of Quantum Mechanics
  8. History of airline lavatories
  9. Orbital docking
  10. Is the Pythagorean scale universally pleasing?
  11. virtual particle exchange for attraction forces
  12. Inertial temperature

June 12

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 12

  1. What biotech company is doing the study that replicates ccr4 immunity for people with hiv?
  2. Vulcan hearing
  3. Probability Of Destruction In "Super 8"
  4. Cold fusion applicability
  5. Diet by cold/hot air
  6. Electronic compass
  7. first magnet
  8. Interchangeability of USB wall chargers
  9. Identifying small trilobites in Ordovician-age rock
  10. Pain & C-Fibers
  11. Fat

June 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 13

  1. what are the health effects of chronic *low* blood sugar? (if there is such a thing)
  2. Bed Bugs
  3. Need help identifying this ladybird-lookalike
  4. Recent Volcanic Eruptions
  5. Triplet carbenes
  6. pressing question
  7. Strontium ferrite vs. barium ferrite
  8. body
  9. Normalizing Associated Legendre Polynomials to get Spherical Harmonics
  10. Cleaning styrofoam

June 14

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 14

  1. Does the planet Neptune contain water? If so, is it possible that there's a chance that maybe there's life?
  2. Mystery drug
  3. lunar eclipse
  4. transduction, transformation, transfection and electroporation
  5. Raspberries
  6. Soundproofing with solids
  7. Unstable nuclei
  8. Fingerprints
  9. diffrence
  10. Physics and timetravel
  11. phone tracing

June 15

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 15

  1. Measurement Unit Of Malleability
  2. Putting Humpty Dumpty back together again
  3. I am a mechanical engineer now i need a notes for the following topics
  4. Multiple biopsy
  5. Light's behaviour
  6. Neutrino oscillations and CP violation
  7. Problems topping up mobile
  8. Horticulture Nurseries
  9. Directions near the Poles
  10. Nose to the Brain
  11. spin current
  12. ADHD Medication Rankings
  13. Monkey from Antalya, Turkey?
  14. Why no CO2 clouds high in the atmosphere?

June 16

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 16

  1. physics questions
  2. Lunar Eclipse - yet another q?
  3. Foil wrapped for freshess
  4. Solubility and pH
  5. About the Brain
  6. Onychogalea
  7. INFORMATION ON CAPTAFOL
  8. Scratched CD
  9. Clear fluid where a scab is ripped off
  10. Weatherproofing steel, black powder
  11. Measure rainfall
  12. Bioelectromagnetism Burn Marks
  13. Insect species
  14. Plant Identification

June 17

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 17

  1. Average weight for Americans and Europeans
  2. Bawris
  3. Small photography
  4. Does a Encyclopedia Naziana exist?
  5. Big bang?
  6. Fixing nesting box on to tree trunk
  7. Detection of light at great distance

June 18

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 18

  1. Text readable only at low zoom
  2. Spotting Jupiter with the naked eye during daytime
  3. If we(humankind) build 1 000 000 000 starships, Project Daedalus mass, that is around 50 000 tons each
  4. Space telescopes
  5. Accuracy of Altitude measurements
  6. Lunar eclipse
  7. Kill or capture a household fly
  8. Does Gamma Ray travels slower than Light Speed?
  9. Did the military have mobile phones?
  10. Hitting cows on their noses
  11. Relative pulling power of one horse

June 19

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 19

  1. Iraqi National Oil Company
  2. Lunar eclipse (why not with every full moon ?)
  3. Psychological solar heating
  4. Purifying water with bleach in th UK - bleach source?
  5. Bad Rupture
  6. Using Nuclear Warheads for Electricity Generation
  7. plant breathing at night and fresh morning air
  8. With the help of Biotechnology study, How form (made) optimer?

June 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 20

  1. Species of bird
  2. Bug ID
  3. Lab management
  4. Effects of bilateral seperation on humans.
  5. Digital camera trouble
  6. Septic tank
  7. Laptop on the lap and heating
  8. WLAN signal strength varies, distance the same
  9. Why are some hair products for men only?
  10. Blue whiting glowing in the dark
  11. Strange Fish
  12. typhoons in Russia
  13. Reynolds number for different constrictions
  14. Dormancy breaking

June 21

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 21

  1. Is there an estimate available for the fraction of the Earth's mass that is dark matter?
  2. Primary 5 Science
  3. Atmospheric content of nitric oxide
  4. metastasis
  5. Any 2011 news on the 2000 year-old Judean date palm?
  6. How does a dry "dead" seed come to life?
  7. comets
  8. spin altering
  9. Bugonia, bee mimics
  10. Habitable planet/moon pair.
  11. Foil pan heat conductivity of a disposable grill
  12. Irish hurricanes
  13. Why can I see clearly when I wear two pairs of glasses?

June 22

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 22

  1. Microstrip step discontinuity
  2. State of the Art in Abiogenesis Research
  3. Quick births
  4. Hand skin color

June 23

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 23

  1. trap
  2. Hessdalen lights -- a legit phenomena or a lot of bogus claims?
  3. Spheres and Disks (and Disks to Jets?)
  4. Bumps on tongue
  5. Marijuana and chickens
  6. Fully charged and partially charged battery cells working together
  7. gene difference between Man, Woman, Chimpanzee?
  8. Great Lakes Storm of 1913#November 9
  9. Neurons Attached
  10. Polonium in cigarettes
  11. Crystal Violet Tetrazolium Agar
  12. Testing medicines

June 24

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 24

  1. What kind of clothing do workers wear when doing work on power lines?
  2. muscle cramp consequences?
  3. Sugar water injection
  4. fish

June 25

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 25

  1. Halo effect?
  2. Unknown bug
  3. Why are bird droppings white?
  4. Magnetic field of sun
  5. The solar wind
  6. Standard enthalpy of formation
  7. Use of figures from copyright protected references
  8. Lasalocid
  9. Permian–Triassic extinction event

June 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 26

  1. Hotspot underneath Iceland is the same one that produced the Siberian Traps?
  2. crossing over
  3. Constitutional walk [close to speed of light] on Einstein’s treadmill:
  4. "9,900 years hyperbolic orbit"?
  5. Diamond and Lonsdaleite
  6. what is un-saturated polyester film
  7. Orbital speed and escape velocity
  8. Looking for a good Scientific Paper
  9. Subterranean rivers
  10. what is older?
  11. Asperger's syndrome and stalking

June 27

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 27

  1. What is the biggest Humpback whale ever found?
  2. life and reproduction
  3. Rock-hard stools and fake fruit juice
  4. WIMPs
  5. Difference between curd and yoghurt
  6. Capturing CO2
  7. General Fusion
  8. bond angles
  9. how did biblical figures probably walk on water
  10. painkillers for waxing
  11. communication over vast distances
  12. Biology
  13. hello (identifying #7 plastic)
  14. weird plastic taste in coffee
  15. is it any easier to catch a bullet at the top of its arc if you throw it up than if you shoot it up?
  16. miami

June 28

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 28

  1. Multiple sclerosis
  2. Colloquial medical expressions
  3. Quantum superposition
  4. MRI question
  5. Multiple Alleles
  6. From the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea
  7. Are we evolving?
  8. Deep Tissue Massage

June 29

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 29

  1. Isn't hair loss an evolutionary trait?
  2. Antarctica without an ice sheet in the summertime?
  3. Gases
  4. General Tau Theory
  5. 50%t
  6. potassium and sodium in seawater
  7. Low-gear torque

June 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 June 30

  1. The universe, consciousness and the anthropic principle
  2. String theory and time travel
  3. Request for RDS regulars to help with a teensy problem on another board...
  4. slow neutrinos
  5. Plugging in and electrical use
  6. Expansion of the universe
  7. Regenerating electric energy in motor vehicles
  8. color
  9. What is this little white bug?
  10. Photons exchange inside atoms
  11. How do pigs groom or clean themselves?
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