Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2018

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 1


 * 1) sanding/filing/grinding stainless steel
 * 2) Split rocks on Theodore Roosevelt Island

= January 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 3


 * 1) Does Social Peer Pressure prevent people from stating the obvious?
 * 2) human skeletal muscles

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 4


 * 1) 22° halos

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 5


 * 1) House of mirrors lighting
 * 2) Cat questions.

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 6


 * 1) Virus count with common cold (not medical advice)
 * 2) World Geography
 * 3) Would people who have lost their long term memory eat the same thing every day?

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 7


 * 1) Haulin' tonnage
 * 2) Increasing exercise capacity

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 8


 * 1) Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, oxygen in mouth-to-mouth artificial respiration
 * 2) How we use burning Energy?
 * 3) health effects of RF radiation

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 9


 * 1) Recommendations for non-science books by High Energy physicists
 * 2) Supercritical power plants

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 10


 * 1) Embryo segments (creationist claim)
 * 2) DST and India

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 11


 * 1) Does normal salt intake cause cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure by depressing the renin–angiotensin system?
 * 2) Titanic
 * 3) Cool flame

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 12


 * 1) Bizarre error in official PLU code record?
 * 2) PID controller
 * 3) Brown crap on people's teeth that doesn't go away
 * 4) Bollockwarts

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 13


 * 1) The Muslim Newton

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 14


 * 1) Nannostomus beckfordi in Rio Guapore?
 * 2) Accelerating towards the sun
 * 3) Lying to children about science

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 15


 * 1) How much care is exercised in naming new concepts in quantum physics? (e.g. "wave function collapse")
 * 2) trying to identify a plant by pictures
 * 3) Fire containment calculations
 * 4) Nuclear Propulsion Technology (Ships)

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 16


 * 1) Stirling single
 * 2) Physics Question
 * 3) NSAIDs
 * 4) How long have zoologists known that animals don't have four legs + wings?

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 17


 * 1) Taxonomic History of Mollusca
 * 2) Why is pittsburgh pa so cold?
 * 3) Chemistry question.
 * 4) Accelerating radioactivity naturally decay

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 18


 * 1) Coherent or highly monochromatic terahertz
 * 2) Canon de 75 modèle 1897: The Italian Response
 * 3) Cold desert at night
 * 4) Carbon fibre
 * 5) MPG - casues of significant improvement?
 * 6) Physics Question (one more)

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 19


 * 1) What's a cryogel?
 * 2) Current uses of radium-226

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 20


 * 1) Astronomy Question

= January 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 21


 * 1) TGV
 * 2) What is the source of this "chapter 43" that found in a lot of sites on the internet?
 * 3) Any spaceship prototype based on capturing dust and using it as propulsor?

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 22


 * 1) Pyrogens as alternatives to DNP for weight loss?
 * 2) Dyson sphere
 * 3) Human head hair - changes from child to adult.

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 23


 * 1) What substance is responsible for a metallic taste/smell?
 * 2) Blue animals

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 24


 * 1) Could neutrinos be used practically for cooling?
 * 2) What factors can we say are responsible for the lifespans of Homo (human) members increasing to 70 years, as seen in modern hunter-gatherers?
 * 3) Oxyanion naming confusion
 * 4) Why does a washing machine take hours to do the laundry?

= January 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 25


 * 1) Super blue blood moons
 * 2) Detecting an aortic aneurysm
 * 3) Gametes of decreased size occurring in evolution of sexual reproduction

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 26


 * 1) Practical implementation of system for electrostatic attraction for pulling and holding large mass

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 27


 * 1) Flame Nebula
 * 2) Earth analog
 * 3) Is there a basis for that woman a week after giving birth has negative hormonal changes?

= January 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 28


 * 1) Trash dumping into the ocean
 * 2) A group of humans?
 * 3) Three legged folding chair with a back
 * 4) Electric Universe concept removed from Wikipedia.

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 29


 * 1) Electron affinities of the superheavy elements
 * 2) Reactivity of ytterbium
 * 3) Is there such a thing as "clean" (non-pathogenic) particulate matter?

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 January 31


 * 1) Speaking tubes