Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/January 2019

= January 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 1


 * 1) Are large rings of pure oxygen possible?

= January 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 2


 * 1) Animals with head first delivery preferred?

= January 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 4


 * 1) Is there any evidence that biology is reducible to physics
 * 2) Can blood vessels damaged by hypertension repair themselves?
 * 3) Australian Snakes - Origin ?

= January 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 5


 * 1) Species identification
 * 2) Can organic chemistry reactions be calculated on a computer?
 * 3) Astronomer vs. astrophysicist

= January 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 6


 * 1) All-weather fighters
 * 2) Why are carbonate esters so obscure?
 * 3) Source of medical opioids like Percocet, Percodan, and OxyContin.

= January 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 7


 * 1) Chief Engineer at Hughes Aircaraft at end of WWII
 * 2) Straight lines on the ocean floor

= January 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 8


 * 1) Need access to a scientific journal
 * 2) Strength of ice at colder temperatures?

= January 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 9


 * 1) pH measurement
 * 2) Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography

= January 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 10


 * 1) FRB 180814.J0422+73

= January 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 11


 * 1) Making smoking healthy/healthier

= January 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 12


 * 1) What's the explanation for late allergy discovering
 * 2) Can ferns be successfully grafted?

= January 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 13


 * 1) Human skin colour evolution

= January 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 14


 * 1) Etymology of oxime
 * 2) Mantises praying on birds and reptiles

= January 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 15


 * 1) Science Nobel prizes.
 * 2) Train bells
 * 3) Claims of being the best
 * 4) Latex balloon additives

= January 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 16


 * 1) Do people who get an orchiectomy tend to experience weight gain afterwards?
 * 2) Sources on the inventor of the railroad switch
 * 3) Controversy about Jeanne Calment's date of death and age
 * 4) Engineering catalogs

= January 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 17


 * 1) Microscopy in the 17th century

= January 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 18


 * 1) Inertia vs mass
 * 2) Do magnets attract flying sparks?

= January 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 19


 * 1) Surgical masks
 * 2) Preventing another Balvano
 * 3) Armor Penetration
 * 4) Enthalpy vs. internal energy: potential mistake in article
 * 5) at witch pressure morphes air to a state that looks like steam ?
 * 6) DNA

= January 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 20


 * 1) Phenomenal eggs
 * 2) Emotions with a cognitive component
 * 3) Looking for something about Isolation Experiments on people
 * 4) Brown wax

= January 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 22


 * 1) What's the biggest ship that's physically possible to circumnavigate with 1 or 2 people?

= January 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 23


 * 1) Entangled particles and the double-slit experiment
 * 2) Question about cold weather and water/ice

= January 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 24


 * 1) Firing up a train
 * 2) Are large gulls closely related?
 * 3) magnetic moment
 * 4) Economically viable garbage recycling without subsidies

= January 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 26


 * 1) What was the last continent with a 360° rain shadow shield?

= January 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 27


 * 1) gender transition's effect on human refractory period

= January 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 29


 * 1) Wikipedia's "List of prolific inventors"

= January 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 30


 * 1) Autism and Vaccination - Wakefield’s Lancet Paper Vindicated – [Yet Again]

= January 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 January 31


 * 1) –150°F
 * 2) What's the reason for two different colors of figs in the same tree?
 * 3) ancient site
 * 4) Photo of early man stone tool rejected
 * 5) Alternating current waveform creation application for MacOS