Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/February 2016

= February 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 1


 * 1) Breached levee near town
 * 2) "Sleeping funny" and sore neck
 * 3) What is encoded?
 * 4) GLUT-4
 * 5) Whiskey warehouses
 * 6) Why is air conditioning considered a luxury but heating is considered a necessity?
 * 7) White tube like things in poor quality diced beef.

= February 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 2


 * 1) Cutting or bending Electronic paper displays

= February 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 3


 * 1) Movement of the North Ecliptic Pole
 * 2) Basic physics problem
 * 3) Accelerating around a curve in a car
 * 4) Haber process clarification
 * 5) mosquito
 * 6) Meiosis occurs in all our cells of the body or just in the sexual cells?
 * 7) When someone is hearing voices, whythese tend to be destructive?
 * 8) How much does time vary from one day to the next for sunrise and sunset?
 * 9) What is the formula for conversion of testosterone nmol/L to testosterone ng/dL?
 * 10) List of quad style Drones
 * 11) In case of atrial fibrillation does a part of the atrial pulses passes to the ventricles?
 * 12) PEG-PVA excipient ("binder" et al. for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients primarily for oral route preparations) article in sorry stub state
 * 13) "Sexual cells are cells which able to reproduce a new generation."

= February 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 5


 * 1) When the freezer or refrigerator breaks, what do I do with food in it?
 * 2) Crane Collapses in Lower Manhattan, Killing at Least One Person

= February 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 6


 * 1) List of people who have walked on the Moon
 * 2) Can any problem be broken down into easy to understand parts?

= February 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 7


 * 1) Man with no brain
 * 2) What is the meaning of the word "lead" in context of ECG?
 * 3) Do all the muscles of the body have origin and insertion?
 * 4) In genetics, sex can be dominant?
 * 5) Date of official information on the name of element 113
 * 6) Odors emitted by the Feces and Urine of Mammals and Birds
 * 7) Oil drilling -- env. impact
 * 8) Oil drilling, part 2
 * 9) Near earth approach of 2013 TX68 in March 2016
 * 10) sources of oxidants in natural shale gas reservoirs
 * 11) Are all stars main sequence stars at some point in their life-cycle?
 * 12) are there compounds which are poorly soluble in aliphatic hydrocarbons (e.g. cyclohexane) but dissolve well in aromatic ones (like benzene or toluene)?
 * 13) Really how important is fruit?

= February 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 8


 * 1) marshy gas from mines
 * 2) Formula for lens
 * 3) Possible to change taste buds in adulthood?
 * 4) Falling from a building
 * 5) Is it best for a man/woman to see a male/female psychiatrist respectively?
 * 6) cramps or a "charley horse" after orgasm
 * 7) Jump cushion
 * 8) How many defecators?
 * 9) Perspective machines
 * 10) Technology for the disabled
 * 11) Accelerating a particle with light
 * 12) Immunity vs resistance

= February 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 9


 * 1) Synthetic turquoise
 * 2) Weight of paper
 * 3) Widely distributed species
 * 4) The extinction of sandboxes
 * 5) Starkiller Base superweapon

= February 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 10


 * 1) io photographs
 * 2) hops as a preservative
 * 3) Unknown bird
 * 4) water temperature and baby bath
 * 5) What does the X and Y (of chromosomes) stand for?
 * 6) Does DEMKO approve Schuko (CEE 7/7) plugs?
 * 7) Climate averages of Bacău
 * 8) For how long bacteria and viruses can live outside of the body (not in laboratory conditions)?
 * 9) Does chlorine destroy viruses like it does to bacteria?
 * 10) What is the physiological reason for inappetence?

= February 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 11


 * 1) Is it normal to never get angry?
 * 2) Making a slushie without sugar
 * 3) The mask should defend on the sick or from the sick?
 * 4) Why do doctors give saline to the patient instead of water?

= February 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 12


 * 1) Magnetic hovering spheres
 * 2) Any disadvantage of graphite graphene batteries?
 * 3) Elemental composition and electrons in a white dwarf star, etc
 * 4) Energy from black holes merging

= February 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 13


 * 1) under what conditions will a Grignard or sodium hydroxide polymerize an epoxide
 * 2) Are PUFAs in cooking oils harmful?
 * 3) cabin pressure for private jets
 * 4) Dissolving Low-density polyethylene
 * 5) Damaging effects of gravitational waves
 * 6) Nutrients needed by cuttings in water, specifically Geraniums
 * 7) PDF Beiträge zur Araneologie (Beitr. Araneol.), vol. 2: Fossil spiders in Dominican amber?

= February 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 14


 * 1) Teaspoons vs mL
 * 2) Fuel vs oxidizer on Falcon 9
 * 3) Killing yourself on valentines day
 * 4) Urine processing in the ISS
 * 5) How was the distance to the source of gravitational waves measured?
 * 6) Ingredients in drugs
 * 7) Did people in the dark ages know that the world had gone to shit?
 * 8) Spectral response of cones and rods
 * 9) Identification of a spider from Sydney

= February 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 15


 * 1) Nothing  after 'clay effect' ? or we found the world's limit?
 * 2) Mud in San Francisco Bay
 * 3) Number of people killed in Dresden
 * 4) Sine, sine, everywhere a sine
 * 5) Earth science
 * 6) Radio on smartphones
 * 7) Densitometry: how to determine the base of curves (e.g. in ImageJ)
 * 8) Gravitational waves

= February 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 16


 * 1) Lipophilic substances
 * 2) People shutting down ("dying") and then starting up again ("coming back to life")
 * 3) Quantitative analysis of gases producing odors in feces of humans, animals and birds
 * 4) STI Testing
 * 5) What sciences fields, besides psychiatry, have an "anti-" version of it?

= February 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 17


 * 1) Organ donor transport
 * 2) Difference between the labor and technology
 * 3) Drainage
 * 4) Series

= February 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 18


 * 1) Wind in the Willows, is it?
 * 2) How does it happen ?
 * 3) Difference between FMVSS (U.S. and Canada) and UNECE (rest of the world) car regulations
 * 4) Levitation
 * 5) Under water mining
 * 6) Powering Machines
 * 7) Biomedical engineering and mental health
 * 8) How can he possibly father a child?

= February 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 19


 * 1) Vehicle making software sought; open and or non-open source
 * 2) Cheap osmium
 * 3) What percent of a normal battleship is hollow?
 * 4) Work

= February 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 20


 * 1) Would algae be a vegetable?
 * 2) What is the reason the inner part of the cell membrane is hydrophobic?

= February 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 21


 * 1) Can identify this dog breed ?
 * 2) Brain limit
 * 3) Example for Calculus of Variations Usage
 * 4) Withstanding black hole gravitation

= February 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 22


 * 1) Lights off the Falklands
 * 2) Did someone just 'prove' Bohmian mechanics?
 * 3) Transcription enzyme
 * 4) Water purification
 * 5) Danger of asbestos after constructing the building, and before demolishing it
 * 6) How does the operator get inside the crane ?

= February 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 23


 * 1) Updates on Desert Varnish?
 * 2) Rorschach's mask

= February 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 24


 * 1) How does smoking affect cognitive abilities?
 * 2) Flower from a film poster
 * 3) How do epidemiologists track down the source of a sexually transmitted disease if clinics have anonymous testing?
 * 4) How does glucagon avoid peristaltic?
 * 5) Distinguishing Human Blood from Pig Blood by taste/other easy characteristics...
 * 6) Is there a source for the number of the types cells organalles in human cell?
 * 7) Is there any nervous system in the heart?
 * 8) Koala is a marsupial

= February 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 25


 * 1) Where does the air go on a hot day?
 * 2) What does a photon of visible light look like before you see it?

= February 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 26


 * 1) On the definition of repolarization
 * 2) high fever (104F) from an influenza infection triggering "drunkenness" (delirium), psychosis and suicidal thoughts
 * 3) Launch windows for Mars landers
 * 4) Does "action potential" is the elctrical systole?
 * 5) Term sought

= February 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 27


 * 1) Rietdijk–Putnam argument
 * 2) Names of newly discovered taxa
 * 3) Science papers with photographs of the authors on the first page

= February 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 28


 * 1) Gigameters
 * 2) Pregnant pilot
 * 3) If you make an organolithium reagent by reacting lithium metal with alkyl halide, wouldn't the generated organolithium reagent also react with the original alkyl halide?
 * 4) Why do I don't find an article about endocrine cell - on Wiki?
 * 5) Evaporation
 * 6) Growing
 * 7) Is there an "app" for signaling when something in the freezer starts freezing?

= February 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 29


 * 1) My smartphone lens coating is half gone. Should I scratch off the rest for symmetry?
 * 2) Firedamp
 * 3) Did convection in households gas and electric stoves are been use a same scheme?
 * 4) What does it mean negative and positive electrode?
 * 5) Why do my glass lenses get foggy but my eyes do not?
 * 6) Antifungal antibiotic
 * 7) Dennis Miller, Trey Parker, global warming