Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2015

= August 1 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 7


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

= August 8 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 9


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

= August 10 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 22


 * 1) Brunner syndrome and diet

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 August 23


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

= August 24 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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 = 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?