Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/July 2018

= July 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 1


 * 1) Lexell's Comet

= July 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 2


 * 1) Are the chromosomes in human nucleus with different genes or the same?
 * 2) Psychology of introverts who have given up with close friends and relationships
 * 3) Ideal Gas Problem
 * 4) Astronomy: How does an object get in a Lagrange point?
 * 5) DNA analysis of siblings

= July 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 3


 * 1) Outstretched Fingers Form Circular Pattern
 * 2) Diesel engines

= July 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 4


 * 1) Please ID the flower
 * 2) SpaceX
 * 3) Is there or was there a diseases so called "hadroken" or "hadrokan"?
 * 4) Quantum spin pairing in atomic and molecular species
 * 5) Is there a scientific basis for the claim that carbonated water expand the stomach?

= July 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 5


 * 1) Scientifically, is it possible to improve IQ score?
 * 2) Measles
 * 3) When 20 is not the double of 10 in a scale
 * 4) Children of homosexual couples.

= July 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 6


 * 1) Why soda (Sodium bicarbonate) isn't considered as anti acidic drug?

= July 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 7


 * 1) Does hypoalbuminemia causes decrease in oncotic pressure or osmotic pressure?
 * 2) Why in starvation there is mainly ascites rather than edema?
 * 3) Hæmatophyte (plant blood parasites)
 * 4) A claim in an alternative medicine book
 * 5) Did the eating of crabs and anchovies originate in South America?

= July 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 8


 * 1) Full face diving mask Vs mouth piece

= July 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 9


 * 1) Puncture repair patches - what's the orange stuff?

= July 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 10


 * 1) Surviving a firenado
 * 2) Why are the Great Plains of North America not considered to be a system of piedmont plateaus?
 * 3) High index lenses
 * 4) How do Voltage converters deal with Hz?

= July 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 11


 * 1) copper pitchers for storing drinking water
 * 2) Doctors that refuse abortions
 * 3) Japanese home appliances in a country split between a 50 Hz and 60 Hz power grid?

= July 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 12


 * 1) Glandular fever not found in a blood test, even though it's supposed to remain in the body for life
 * 2) Spatial memory

= July 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 13


 * 1) Millipede legs; restriction on total number
 * 2) And again I know nothing about birds
 * 3) Vitamin B11

= July 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 14


 * 1) Mass of earth over time

= July 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 15


 * 1) Photography - tracking fast moving subjects
 * 2) Differences between hydrogen and most elements
 * 3) Rinsing out a vessel

= July 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 16


 * 1) Fed wasabi peanuts to seagull
 * 2) Molecular term symbols and electronic configurations
 * 3) Planting with a machine gun
 * 4) When Trans woman get breasts from hormones or surgery, can they feed babies breast milk?
 * 5) Horse chestnut sap causing blue colour

= July 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 17


 * 1) Impairment of dolphin function during sleep
 * 2) Nutrition: How long does it take to add 10 kg (22 lb) to one's weight, while consuming 5000 kcal per day (by eating cakes)?
 * 3) Drowning spiders
 * 4) Ownership of Ryugu and Ceres

= July 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 18


 * 1) Vickers Hardness Number Notation
 * 2) Calibrate radiation detector
 * 3) What enzymes take place in glucose re-absorption?
 * 4) mystery spider
 * 5) Reference Desk Staff
 * 6) Lead soldered kettle

= July 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 19


 * 1) Does gravity always point to *somewhere* in the Earth's core?

= July 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 20


 * 1) Photon as "information"
 * 2) Balance and vision
 * 3) How germs get inside the body
 * 4) Upside down glasses
 * 5) Rubbing alcohol
 * 6) NIST and WTC's dust

= July 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 21


 * 1) Giving birth

= July 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 22


 * 1) Light on the Explorer 1 rocket

= July 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 23


 * 1) How much water is needed to block various species from reaching an island they would've thrived on if there was a landbridge?

= July 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 24


 * 1) Removing water to connect all current land...
 * 2) How do weeds manage to grow without a drop of water in the soil?
 * 3) Deploying Compost in Extreme Heat.
 * 4) Insect from eastern Quebec

= July 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 25


 * 1) Why can Labrador get so hot?
 * 2) Not sure why this doesn't break the Second Law of Thermodynamics

= July 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 26


 * 1) Stomach usually gurgles on the left side
 * 2) Not eating or drinking before surgery
 * 3) Seeking an identification for this caterpillar found in garden. Somerset UK

= July 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 27


 * 1) Definition of episomal
 * 2) AA and KSD

= July 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 28


 * 1) Hearing:  difference in sensitivity to harmonics and intermodulation.
 * 2) Red meat and diabetes
 * 3) Tractor model (Montana 1991)

= July 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 29


 * 1) Force in rocketry, possibly for quarks inside proton, anywhere else?
 * 2) Sonorescence
 * 3) Different expression levels from same reporter inserted into the same place in the genome

= July 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 30


 * 1) Is the average unpalatability of the plant kingdom (not counting parts the plant wants eaten) increasing over time?
 * 2) Chemical elements and the next, nearest one
 * 3) How is the optical effect called when you laquer carbon fiber?

= July 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 July 31


 * 1) croaking frog stopping
 * 2) Shark in bleach solution
 * 3) Apollo 11 splash down module
 * 4) Antifungal cream