Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2013

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 1


 * 1) what's the species here? it's White flowered shrub
 * 2) Reptile Identification - NT Australia
 * 3) Gabapentin
 * 4) Effect of spin on bounce
 * 5) Reptile Identification - Cameron's corner, Eastern(ish)/Central Australia
 * 6) The element which can form the largest number of covalent bonds
 * 7) physics - heat  project topic
 * 8) Colubrid snake acting a little rattlesnake-like
 * 9) If one testicle is larger than the other,what should the effect on the body?
 * 10) How far from Humans evolutionarily to *not* have just two chest nipples?

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 2


 * 1) Why doesn't Wellbutrin and an SSRI used in combination result in similar to the triple reuptake inhibitor cocaine?
 * 2) My tea rots
 * 3) What force binds the cells in multicellular organisms together?
 * 4) Midnight sun and bird activity
 * 5) Air Conditioning and Global Warming
 * 6) Explosive boiling of water in a cooking pan on a stove
 * 7) Cats Shedding Oocyst
 * 8) Steering of hot air balloon in horizontal plane
 * 9) Biology
 * 10) Photo of dead body

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 3


 * 1) Is stereophonic sound really needed for future virtual reality technology?
 * 2) Sun's curve
 * 3) Particle decelerator, is it possible?
 * 4) NICU
 * 5) Personality trait
 * 6) Why don't chocolate coated nuts have a flat spot?

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 4


 * 1) Gravitational time dilation
 * 2) Second reflection in mirror
 * 3) Malignant lump
 * 4) Ears, temperature, and balance
 * 5) Dot markings on Torx screws
 * 6) Sahara

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 5


 * 1) Sodium in softened water
 * 2) Spin in the classical context

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 6


 * 1) What is a Quasi-satellite
 * 2) Does time dilate in stationary light clock?
 * 3) Effects of marijuana as a drink
 * 4) Combined cycle plants
 * 5) Mystery
 * 6) What exactly do service dogs for diabetics detect?
 * 7) Hail and windscreens
 * 8) Geometric Optics (Refraction)
 * 9) A problem of too much Lactic Acid exists?

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 7


 * 1) Cell reproduction
 * 2) sexual enjoyment
 * 3) Light and Colour
 * 4) Brown Pelican
 * 5) Rain
 * 6) Has anyone tried using webcams, or Skype or whatever, to allow pet parrots to communicate?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 8


 * 1) Is Gluten soluble"
 * 2) Could there be slow moving neutrinos from somewhere else or from before the big bang?
 * 3) Check the following Facts
 * 4) rings of planets
 * 5) How are those ricin letters suppose to work?
 * 6) Baryon number and fine-tuning
 * 7) Polydactyly
 * 8) Good Earth
 * 9) Cooking question
 * 10) Slow motion cameras and Hawk-Eye
 * 11) Odours

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 9


 * 1) how the measurement in a dc potentiometer is being done??
 * 2) Surveillance camera disruption
 * 3) F1=ma=mg=F2 or a=g
 * 4) What type of turtle
 * 5) I broke my soldering gun
 * 6) A special type of CRT?
 * 7) what motor oil do i use for a 2001 bmw 740i with 159k miles in good condition? and other BMW questions

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 10


 * 1) Can time really be depicted with space  in continuum?
 * 2) speed of aurora video
 * 3) Birds as pest control
 * 4) Greater blue-ringed octopus size
 * 5) Why Dewar flask cannot be considered a truly isolated system?
 * 6) Dopamine chemistry
 * 7) Turtles
 * 8) Does switching to a different diet require extra energy in humans?
 * 9) Heat storage
 * 10) Bufotenine - Medicinal Uses in China?
 * 11) citronella oil
 * 12) How spacecrafts estimate moon's and planet's internal structure

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 11


 * 1) Does anyone provide solutions on solutions?
 * 2) Is that cold or just the feeling of cold that brings thermogenesis ?
 * 3) Ways to turn a hurricane?
 * 4) Chemistry and relativistic effects
 * 5) Dissociation and eutectics
 * 6) Air oxidation of Ammonium iron(II) sulfate
 * 7) Voltmeter and ammeter
 * 8) Are vaccines homeopathic?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 12


 * 1) Mites and ticks
 * 2) Sievert
 * 3) Basic rocket anatomy
 * 4) Main Battle Tank

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 13


 * 1) Non-circular replacement body joints
 * 2) Triple integral integration by parts
 * 3) Naming  an apple rust (fungus)
 * 4) What's wrong with this one-pot synthesis?
 * 5) Genetic contributions of parentals in haplodiploidy
 * 6) What kind of microscope do oceanographers use?
 * 7) Spa chemistry

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 14


 * 1) Dense storage of positrons using superconducting coil?
 * 2) Two different cicada species?
 * 3) Who is right?

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 15


 * 1) This element does not exist in our periodic table
 * 2) Structural steel bolts
 * 3) Cicadas in NJ?
 * 4) Reverse osmosis
 * 5) Celibacy vs. female sexual desire
 * 6) Melting point of calcium acetate
 * 7) Advantage of smoking when it comes down to getting the substance
 * 8) Explosives from creosote

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 16


 * 1) Conscious control of breathing
 * 2) electron spin reversal
 * 3) what makes earths  seasons
 * 4) Nosecones on airliners and fighter jets

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 17


 * 1) NIR and static
 * 2) Dinosaur's genders
 * 3) Why do some algae make PUFA (poly unsaturated fatty acids)?
 * 4) Race (biology)
 * 5) Conservation of momentum in time dimension

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 18


 * 1) Homozygote-to-heterozygote assortative mating
 * 2) Audio Source Signatures and Transforming
 * 3) my 2001 bmw 740i is rattling
 * 4) Possible improvements in Wikipedia entry on Milankovitch Cycles
 * 5) What's this turtle doing?
 * 6) Can neutrinos undergo gravitational lensing?
 * 7) Complex space & Quantum mechanics
 * 8) Siphoning gasoline - which cars to choose?
 * 9) Generic medications
 * 10) Generating electricity by evaporating water
 * 11) Merkel
 * 12) Problems with the definition of the newton in relativity
 * 13) % fat-free
 * 14) Cleaning the shower stall.

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 19


 * 1) The psychology of flirting between men and women
 * 2) if a neutrino goes on a bullseye towards a nucleus will it usually pass right thru?
 * 3) Searching for Jimmy Hoffa...
 * 4) Trace element changing the properties of a whole substance
 * 5) Actin Protein
 * 6) Two related questions about lightning
 * 7) Evolutionary advantage of food allergies
 * 8) Neutron stars and black holes inside

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 20


 * 1) Use of multiple transformers as a power bank
 * 2) Radioactive decay energy distribution
 * 3) Mailing list regarding Rodentia

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 21


 * 1) How does a paper airplane fly in the space station?
 * 2) clostridium
 * 3) Melancholia
 * 4) Speakers and headphone burn in
 * 5) crystals and molecular bonds?
 * 6) Exercise

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 22


 * 1) Sound of Sound Waves Based off Certain Characterisitcs
 * 2) Why humans have more distinctive physical features than most other species?
 * 3) Headphone frequency range
 * 4) Eigengrau for the ears?
 * 5) Supersonic/Hypersonic Movement at Low Altitude
 * 6) Chance of pregnancy per year vs age of parous and nulliparous premenopausal women

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 23


 * 1) Are there any human societies that...
 * 2) Why can we only eat living things (or things that use to be alive)?
 * 3) Sex ratios
 * 4) Trees in the Piazza della Scala
 * 5) Seed preservation mechanism

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 24


 * 1) Africa, Australia, South America, versus Eurasia and North America
 * 2) What is this
 * 3) Tetracoordinate B3+
 * 4) Echinocactus grusonii frost tolerance
 * 5) eggs

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 25


 * 1) Health benefit of anthocyanin in Montmorency cherries?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 26


 * 1) Homemade explosives, part 2
 * 2) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 26#What_is_the_speed_of_sound_in_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fphys.org.2Fnews183044315.html_liquid_diamond.3F.5D|What is the speed of sound in liquid diamond?]]
 * 3) Diplazium esculentum
 * 4) How much should it cost to replace the propeller shaft in my 2001 BMW 740i?
 * 5) Frame shifting indel mutation confusion.
 * 6) Lobotomy

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 27


 * 1) Tsunami physics
 * 2) Plausibility of leaving message for police with bare finger?
 * 3) Remarkable claim about handaxes
 * 4) TREES & SOIL WATER
 * 5) SOIL WATER
 * 6) Human Subspecies
 * 7) 100 ml rule
 * 8) Why don't we have an  Atomexpo page?
 * 9) Quantum chaos
 * 10) How scientist calculates how stars evolves
 * 11) Evolution
 * 12) Since we're talking about evolution...
 * 13) Privately towing a car with the handbrake engaged
 * 14) "Eryngium heterophyllum"

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 28


 * 1) Gamma ray bursts and extraterrestial civilizations
 * 2) STD
 * 3) Neutrinos that go toward neutron stars
 * 4) What is the name of this toy?
 * 5) Effectivity of condoms and other anti-conceptives
 * 6) The neuroscience of waking up
 * 7) Wind direction and planetary rotation
 * 8) Slugs?

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 29


 * 1) Silly Middle-earth-related question
 * 2) Mainstream concepts of human race
 * 3) Fatty acids β-oxidation
 * 4) Notable ancient person whose remains were found

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 June 30


 * 1) Plankton
 * 2) Can box turtles crawl in high grasses
 * 3) eggs in the afternoon
 * 4) Genes and race, what do they code for?
 * 5) Something I was pondering