Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/August 2016

= August 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 1


 * 1) Why'd the box my bear spray shipped in have this end up stickers?
 * 2) In our body > basic becomes acidic and vise versa?

= August 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 2


 * 1) FTIR, again
 * 2) Free metabolism
 * 3) Houseflies
 * 4) Ocean Exploration
 * 5) How to make concrete resistance against water damage

= August 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 4


 * 1) Drafting
 * 2) Will I be reborn if I die?
 * 3) Being pregnant and not knowing
 * 4) Poverty and obesity
 * 5) How much does 1 and 2 km altitude affect highway mileage?

= August 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 5


 * 1) How can this puncture a tire?
 * 2) Sorting M&M

= August 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 6


 * 1) Equivalence principle
 * 2) Insect identification
 * 3) If we both started in the Devonian, would arthropods or humans have created more faeces if we counted them at present day?

= August 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 7


 * 1) Shrink-wrapped Circuit Boards

= August 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 8


 * 1) Is IUPAC nomenclature unambiguous?
 * 2) Another IUPAC question
 * 3) Friction and area of contact
 * 4) Can the stomach adapt to eating large quantities of food in a relatively short period of time?
 * 5) Do colors look hard to distinguish??

= August 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 9


 * 1) Why are people able to swim 2.5% faster after the high-tech suit ban?
 * 2) When will the most distant star/protogalaxy (UDFj-39546284) leave our observable universe?

= August 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 10


 * 1) Helix not a helix
 * 2) Is it possible to pickle my Hamster?
 * 3) Why escalator stairs' steps have sharp edges?
 * 4) Something about the Theory of Global Warming doesn't quite add up
 * 5) Age of American Chemical Society logo

= August 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 11


 * 1) Number 80+ in Ancient Astronomy
 * 2) What is the name of brain-fat and low-priority-energy-usage-fat?
 * 3) Electron structure probing
 * 4) How does astrophysics determine the life-cycle of a star?

= August 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 12


 * 1) Interesting Bacterial or Viral Infection.
 * 2) Minions
 * 3) Shrinking PET bottle phenomenon
 * 4) Electricity and fish
 * 5) Ocular bruising from tooth extraction
 * 6) Drug names

= August 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 13


 * 1) Mithril
 * 2) Tolkien vs. Technology
 * 3) Matter at the beginning of the universe
 * 4) blastophore
 * 5) Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson, Van Gogh, Tchaikovsky: all bipolar?

= August 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 14


 * 1) Request of book suggestions for neuroscience/neurology
 * 2) The concept of species
 * 3) Why the sun angle at sunrise and sunset?
 * 4) What happens to light directed towards the outside of a black hole?

= August 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 15


 * 1) Shetlands and cobs
 * 2) Does This Angle Have A Name ?
 * 3) Why does the antibiotic which called Amphenicols - is called in this name?

= August 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 16


 * 1) Tebua Tarawa - did it ever sink, and is it sunk now?
 * 2) Using quantum teleportation between orbiting satellites to read a license plate on Callisto?
 * 3) Fifth physical force claimed
 * 4) How reliable is the number of citations in Google Scholar

= August 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 17


 * 1) Have both the special relativity and general relativity concrete applications?

= August 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 18


 * 1) Good Calculus-Based Physics Book
 * 2) Do EpiPens actually expire and why?
 * 3) Is a quadcopter capable of autorotation?

= August 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 19


 * 1) Why? (Dangerous medical advice on YouTube)
 * 2) Excretion of Prednisone and Prednisolone
 * 3) Drugs: Nuvigil and Provigil
 * 4) Bias
 * 5) For the pathologists
 * 6) Homeopathy

= August 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 20


 * 1) Are engineers scientists?
 * 2) I'm in A BIG CITY and I can't see the stars at night due to light pollution. If there was a...
 * 3) Supernova ice ages and artificial substitutes
 * 4) what is this filter?

= August 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 21


 * 1) Different number of heart valves in the heart sides
 * 2) Using plastic glove as condom

= August 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 22


 * 1) probabilistic sampling path planners
 * 2) Extreme track and field

= August 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 23


 * 1) Overview of true flies mimicking wasps and bees
 * 2) Dark clouds

= August 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 24


 * 1) Does the International Space Station have enough radiation hardening to survive outside LEO?
 * 2) Metabolism
 * 3) Visualizing the Earthlike planet around Proxima
 * 4) Exploding batteries
 * 5) Titanic

= August 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 25


 * 1) Proxima Centauri b
 * 2) Why soap foam is white irrespective of the color of the soap?
 * 3) Question about wire
 * 4) Speed of sound and quantum entanglement
 * 5) Distribution of mass estimates from Doppler spectroscopy
 * 6) Why are there zero calories in water?

= August 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 26


 * 1) A liquid other than water that is safe to put on your skin

= August 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 27


 * 1) magnesium
 * 2) Time limit for data storage devices
 * 3) One way valve as an alternative to refrigeration?
 * 4) Lichen 4th component
 * 5) Does an isolated system definitely approach (arbitrarily closely) thermodynamic equilibrium?
 * 6) Sodium vs potassium: electrical conductivity
 * 7) Orange
 * 8) What triggers a regular childbirth?
 * 9) Order of substituents in the IUPAC nomenclature for organic chemistry

= August 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 28


 * 1) What material is Curiosity's wheels made of?
 * 2) Have I prevented a potential disaster?

= August 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 29


 * 1) Drugs with low oral bioavailability
 * 2) What do “5-IT” and “6-IT” stand for (as names of psychoactive substances)?
 * 3) Glaciated landscapes

= August 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 30


 * 1) Simon Ramo, Edward Teller
 * 2) Medical advice needed
 * 3) Climate change,lightning
 * 4) inclination of moon
 * 5) Does Venus have spiraling storms ?

= August 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 August 31


 * 1) What fruit or vegetable is the healthiest?
 * 2) Enthalpy of nuclear reactions
 * 3) How can dogs sniff packaged drugs?
 * 4) Amount coffees per pound of beans