Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2015

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 1


 * 1) Q-Spoil
 * 2) evolution of bacteria and washing
 * 3) Incandescent light bulb history
 * 4) Zyklon B
 * 5) Is this real?
 * 6) Why does the space lift need a cable of 22,236+ miles?
 * 7) Neurology: Dearth of research on treating Periodic Limb Movement Disorder (PLMD) with Baclofen
 * 8) Swingset obsession sources?

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 2


 * 1) Taking a picture of the past without a camera
 * 2) Fastest speed
 * 3) What is the liquid sprayed at the base of the rocket in this rocket launch animation?
 * 4) Do all batteries decay with cycles of charging and re-charging?

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 3


 * 1) Sulfate calcination
 * 2) Non-visible paint ?
 * 3) What's the tougher technical problem for using hydrogen fuel in a car?
 * 4) Sun
 * 5) Gas lost from atmosphere

= February 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 4


 * 1) "Geo warping"
 * 2) Converting sounds into colors
 * 3) Deuterium
 * 4) Spontaneous Hummingbird Combustion
 * 5) Asthma Meds
 * 6) Why aren't baboons extinct ?
 * 7) Can rockets fueled with liquid hydrogen, use the oxygen of the air?

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 5


 * 1) causes of condom failure
 * 2) cold dark matter and nuclei
 * 3) Space Elevator
 * 4) Strength of bronze

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 6


 * 1) Purification
 * 2) Are gonanes steranes?
 * 3) Humorous description of paleontology/the fossil record
 * 4) Is lead solder wire unhealthy for the user of it or for the environment?

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 7


 * 1) Self-assembly and creation of carbon nanotubes fibers
 * 2) Alewives
 * 3) Tire radius and mileage
 * 4) Can a rotating black hole be a pulsar?

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 8


 * 1) Telomeres predict maximum age of 200 years?
 * 2) hypeto-particle
 * 3) H2O2 cerumen reaction
 * 4) Direction of Earth revolution

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 9


 * 1) What percentage of people are medically excluded from getting vaccines?
 * 2) 500-megahertz quartz oscillator meme
 * 3) Contact Jean Meeus
 * 4) Three cars colliding
 * 5) Leak repair
 * 6) Before pasteurization, did people drink milk from livestock?

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 10


 * 1) water use comparison:production of gallon of milk vs gallon of soy milk vs gallon of almond milk
 * 2) strain guage load indicator
 * 3) Temperature profiles
 * 4) Why did?
 * 5) How did the organs evolve?
 * 6) What is the evolutionary advantage in learning to control the anal sphincters?

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 11


 * 1) Cross Reaction Drugs Petri Dish pictures
 * 2) Dirt blower
 * 3) How can those  Flicker 3 Wheel Scooter move uphill?
 * 4) Power electronic
 * 5) Is the Law of conservation of energy being the absolute law of physics?
 * 6) Unit of mass
 * 7) Sanitary whole house humidifier ?
 * 8) Schuko plugs with smaller pins
 * 9) How to power a cell-phone through a USB connection instead of the battery.
 * 10) Research papers

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 12


 * 1) What are stem cells?
 * 2) Faraday cage and holes in one dimension
 * 3) Testosterone and the voice
 * 4) The Keen senses of the Gray Wolf, Jaguar/Panther and Puma
 * 5) Sports science - runners' flexibility test
 * 6) Metric Expansion of Space Article Removed by IP

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 13


 * 1) Shrinking atom
 * 2) pulmonary function  test
 * 3) A quantum leap (jump) in the state of quantum equilibrium (balance) of the Law of conservation of energy
 * 4) Self-esteem and its relationship with narcissism.
 * 5) Is there any reliable evidence of different CD players differing in audio quality?
 * 6) Why did my cat meow at a youtube clip about a giraffe tossed from a space station?

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 14


 * 1) MMR Vaccine side effects
 * 2) What does N/A stands for?
 * 3) What is the kink in a thermometer ?
 * 4) What is been the cause of local fighting in the East of the Republic Ukraine?
 * 5) Friction force must be velocity dependent
 * 6) Writing research reports
 * 7) Testing a helmet by being driven over by a tank
 * 8) black body radiation 86.190.50.197 (talk) 15:39, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 9) aurora borealis
 * 10) Could one of the planets of the Solar System previously be a space star?
 * 11) Clearing the neighbourhood
 * 12) Planet_retrograding_motion

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 15


 * 1) Need a Picture of Evolutionary Biologist Robert Trivers
 * 2) Seeing the curvature of the earth from land
 * 3) About Schizotypal Personality Disorder
 * 4) Who am I -- ungulates(?) in Slovakia
 * 5) Sustainability magazines
 * 6) Planck times
 * 7) Check valve with rubber plug?
 * 8) Why do Europeans are more diverse regarding hair and eye color?
 * 9) What is the farthest distance from Earth reached by a spacecraft that came back?

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 16


 * 1) Genus species
 * 2) horseshoe crabs and their medical products
 * 3) cesium-137  Question
 * 4) Species ID
 * 5) What determines the direction of movement in a Rotor ship?
 * 6) What is the advantage of Wi-Fi before GSM?
 * 7) Drinking water vs. drinking water with sodium electrolytes

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 17


 * 1) Modern battering rams
 * 2) About biological computer simulations...
 * 3) MIT study about living on Mars
 * 4) Tacking an untethered lighter than air vehicle?

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 18


 * 1) Cell Phone for Use in Europe
 * 2) Internet connection: charging by the time or amount?
 * 3) MH370 radio
 * 4) Planting milkweed and Monarch butterfly--when and where is it helpful?

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 19


 * 1) mixture of hair colours
 * 2) 72 hour pattern discovered
 * 3) Banana spiders - season for spinning webs
 * 4) Are Chicory and belgian endive one and the same?
 * 5) How to collect water vapor in the desert?
 * 6) Is it possible satellite (sputnik) tracking for general radio and TV broadcasting?
 * 7) To those with knowledge in Biochemistry, Endocrinology, or Internal Medicine
 * 8) Boltzmann brain
 * 9) Human teeth and spider silk
 * 10) The trash or the recycle bin?
 * 11) A query about cell phones and signals
 * 12) 5 ways organize information
 * 13) Are Nobel prizes in science a Golden standard for quality?
 * 14) Per act transmission of HIV/AIDS

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 20


 * 1) I put a six-pack of soda can in a river, which was not frozen

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 21


 * 1) Technical term for the rejection of Cholecystokinin (CCK) stimulation by gallbladder?
 * 2) Is the computer a logical robot?
 * 3) distance to Venus and Mars at the present time
 * 4) Technical reports
 * 5) The Sound of Meteors
 * 6) Freezer energy use as a function of mass and insulation

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 22


 * 1) Conjoined twins
 * 2) Citation for Yang-Mills Theory - Mathematical Overview
 * 3) Animal species with biological ornaments in  females
 * 4) Does higher levels of Testosterone help in recovering lost/damaged tissue, same way it helps increase recovery and growth of muscles etc.?
 * 5) Technology identification
 * 6) GR inertial reference frames.

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 23


 * 1) brightness of an inferior planet
 * 2) Did the speed of light been a constant in nature?
 * 3) A Really Tall Ship, or how to "fly" a planet.
 * 4) Referencing
 * 5) Title lineage of University Physics
 * 6) If beer and wine are acidic, then why do they taste bitter?
 * 7) Comparing human and machine energy efficiency
 * 8) Poincare thought experiment
 * 9) What does it take to set up a personal laboratory in the 21st century?

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 24


 * 1) Chemical composition of Steam
 * 2) Is there a maximum time limit to a human courtship?
 * 3) Growing outside the womb

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 25


 * 1) How are contactless credit cards protected against electronic pick-pocketing?
 * 2) Can one get his entire/whole vas deferens removed?
 * 3) Are there quantum effects having unexpected "memory"?
 * 4) question (optics)
 * 5) animal
 * 6) Physics: Gravitational Fields

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 26


 * 1) Genetics: Focal amplification
 * 2) Spectral sensitivity
 * 3) Did the laws of mechanics are been identical to the laws of other sections of physics?
 * 4) Megalosauroidea
 * 5) Are humans instinctively able to ensure that the phallus goes into the correct orifice for successful mating?
 * 6) Buried by time
 * 7) If whales were fish
 * 8) Pronunciation of "agRP"
 * 9) Name of a tree in Miami
 * 10) Bird identifciation

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 27


 * 1) NASA's beautiful new denoising algorithm
 * 2) Latex gloves
 * 3) Physics: How can any black hole move?
 * 4) Equatorial bulge and viewing distant objects
 * 5) Is there a scientific consensus on how long people who existed during the Stone Age lived?
 * 6) Mobile Phones
 * 7) Is the speed of the electron being a (determinant of) main in nature?

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 February 28


 * 1) Why do we store energy in a battery, and not in a big capacitor?
 * 2) Moving in space
 * 3) Extreme sexual practices
 * 4) Mass bombardment 3.9 billion years ago and life