Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/June 2017

= June 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 1


 * 1) Gas mask training
 * 2) This is about a gene named "cerebum", right?
 * 3) Gecko's foothold
 * 4) Animal species: Recently and unintentionally introduced and now protected/endangered

= June 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 2


 * 1) Can drones "shell" a target ?
 * 2) Terminology: "Payload" in plasmid
 * 3) Larsen Ice shelf
 * 4) Is it indeed forbidden to clean a rabies wound with alcohol?
 * 5) Cooking Climate Consensus Data: “97% of Scientists Affirm AGW" Debunked
 * 6) If beans were stuffed up one's nose, then will there be brain injury or choking?
 * 7) Asteroids and dwarf planets graphics and animations
 * 8) Distributions of asteroids into three types

= June 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 3


 * 1) 7-9 hours of sleep
 * 2) Not chewing food
 * 3) Sump pump versus expandable hose
 * 4) Dancing Black Holes
 * 5) X-ray image

= June 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 4


 * 1) Electra 10-E
 * 2) Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Permafrost melting
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 4#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheswissbay.ch.2Fpdf.2FGentoomen.2520Library.2FExtra.2FRichard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics.252C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley.281964.29.pdf_PDF.5D._Exercise_6-3_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F14-ff4130dc56.jpg_JPG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises PDF. Exercise 6-3 JPG]]
 * 4) Suicidal ideation
 * 5) How do you solve part A?
 * 6) Do animals know that mating leads to procreation
 * 7) FIV+ cats
 * 8) Are free-moving pets able to recognize the litter box the same way humans can recognize a toilet?

= June 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 5


 * 1) Cat vs. Empire State Building
 * 2) Proteins that do their function at extremely low quantities
 * 3) What kind of camera lets you watch the photo appear?
 * 4) Interaction of infectious diseases and trauma

= June 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 6


 * 1) Do fresh mozzerella, paneer, and cottage cheese all really use the same process?
 * 2) How fast do the inner electrons go in gold atoms, relativity
 * 3) What makes a cell "alive" as opposed to being a clump of organic molecules?
 * 4) Quantum coin toss
 * 5) Predation vs cannibalism

= June 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 7


 * 1) 21st century inventions
 * 2) Yawning
 * 3) Calcium leaching - dietary risk
 * 4) Cambrian Explosion and the black holes.
 * 5) Original meaning of "corn" in corn flakes?
 * 6) 'Fold' in motorcycle helmets
 * 7) How fast could a human swim in an infinite universe made of STP air?

= June 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 8


 * 1) The pleasure of sneezing
 * 2) Unknown Antilope
 * 3) War stories
 * 4) What solvent to rejuvenate a solvent resistant pen?
 * 5) carbon monoxide
 * 6) Where can I get reliable info about LDL and HDL in quail eggs?
 * 7) Taxonomy confusion
 * 8) Choosing between 3, 4, or 5 digit long chunks

= June 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 9


 * 1) If there are more Na+ ions in the extracellular space, then will raw red meat taste salty?
 * 2) CG and crosswinds
 * 3) Is there a term for functional groups that are displaced during electrophilic substitution reactions?

= June 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 10


 * 1) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 10#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheswissbay.ch.2Fpdf.2FGentoomen.2520Library.2FExtra.2FRichard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics.252C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley.281964.29.pdf_PDF.5D._Exercises_7-1...7-11|Feynman Lectures. Exercises PDF. Exercises 7-1...7-11]]
 * 2) What do people mean by "reversing diabetes/CVD"?
 * 3) Grey hair
 * 4) Is Zaus gland considered as a lacrimal gland?
 * 5) Yellow mercuric oxide
 * 6) RfC Announce: Wikimedia referrer policy

= June 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 11


 * 1) Could a dog be trained ...
 * 2) Using numbers to make something more believable
 * 3) Nuclear reactor
 * 4) Anxiety as "the great imitator"
 * 5) Tongue-in-cheek scientific studies
 * 6) Heat
 * 7) Diffusion potentials are created by the diffusion of 'very few ions'? meaning
 * 8) Please help identify my pine tree from photos. It looks like a White pine
 * 9) What's the difference between an ant colony, bee colony, and a human society?
 * 10) What's a "snow fruit"?

= June 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 12


 * 1) Why does water not have calories?
 * 2) What's meant by casual sexual encounters in this study?
 * 3) Shared genes between siblings

= June 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 13


 * 1) Is this a sit-up?
 * 2) Electric supercar bursting into flames?

= June 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 14


 * 1) Watermelon rind
 * 2) Zero calories
 * 3) Improvement of Hipparchic cycle
 * 4) Magnetic stirrer
 * 5) Quantum cryptography in commercial environment

= June 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 15


 * 1) Why just after getting scabies is needed to wash the clothes in hot water?
 * 2) Digsilent

= June 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 16


 * 1) Refined grains and food security
 * 2) Spermaceti organ weight
 * 3) London tower block fire engineering
 * 4) how does this circuit work?
 * 5) Quantum communications II
 * 6) Can non-treated diabetes cause neurological damage?

= June 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 17


 * 1) How does powdered cheese sauce work?
 * 2) Tanner stages and fertility

= June 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 18


 * 1) Francium
 * 2) Yellowstone national park super explosion

= June 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 19


 * 1) Why does the squirty hand soap dribble in hot weather?
 * 2) Why does Earth keep getting nearer and nearer to the edge of the "habitable zone"?
 * 3) Health effects of sulforaphane

= June 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 20


 * 1) What is the nonmetallic liquid with the highest surface tension?
 * 2) Can you make thiourea from urea?
 * 3) What mug material would make it hardest for soda bubbles to resist their buoyancy?
 * 4) How much damage would an explosion at Trinity that barely destroyed New Mexico cause?

= June 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 21


 * 1) Tendons and ligaments are classified under muscular or bone system?
 * 2) Death = last thing seen gets imprinted in the eye
 * 3) Dicotyledonous wood
 * 4) Solar eclipse hype
 * 5) What plane is this
 * 6) Can acetic acid in aqueous solution alone pickle foods?

= June 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 22


 * 1) anal sex & hygiene
 * 2) Free Neutrons making dark matter
 * 3) Why is this seal used on buzzers ?

= June 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 23


 * 1) Random chance, probability, and predictability
 * 2) Can wine and beer be used to clean stuff?
 * 3) Pinhole Camera
 * 4) Blocking gravity waves?
 * 5) Can a leaning tower be built in a stable way ?

= June 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 24


 * 1) What Herbivores and Omnivores could realistically live and even thrive in an arctic land where snow covered the ground most of the year ?
 * 2) Is it a goat or a cow?
 * 3) Ethidium bromide (done)
 * 4) Wetness meter

= June 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 25


 * 1) Species in which females are aggressive and males passive
 * 2) Physics: Can a changing spacetime be used to generate unlimited energy?
 * 3) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 25#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheswissbay.ch.2Fpdf.2FGentoomen.2520Library.2FExtra.2FRichard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics.252C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley.281964.29.pdf_PDF.5D._Exercise_7-4_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F16-b75863d902.jpg_JPG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises PDF. Exercise 7-4 JPG]]
 * 4) Bringing home the process of making industrial nutritional yeast - how to do it?

= June 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 26


 * 1) A guy where I work contends that CSPAN is actually harming democracy and functioning of usa  legislature.
 * 2) Engine knocking
 * 3) See THIS comment!
 * 4) [[Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 26#Feynman_Lectures._Exercises_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Ftheswissbay.ch.2Fpdf.2FGentoomen.2520Library.2FExtra.2FRichard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics.252C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley.281964.29.pdf_PDF.5D._Exercise_7-11_.5Bhttp:.2F.2Fhtml.scribd.com.2F91cmvs8wn433jb9d.2Fimages.2F17-717d48fec1.jpg_JPG.5D|Feynman Lectures. Exercises PDF. Exercise 7-11 JPG]]
 * 5) Have there ever been lunar calendars where a solar eclipse makes the month start early?

= June 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 27


 * 1) Can anyone have in their mind a representation of four or more dimensions?
 * 2) Limit of intellect

= June 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 28


 * 1) Characteristics of a predator
 * 2) Can cross spiders (Araneus diadematus) change colour to match their surroundings?
 * 3) Can hydrogen conduct electricity?

= June 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 29


 * 1) Physics in different engine designs
 * 2) Changing the refractive index of air (without heating it).
 * 3) Dual SIM
 * 4) On what size and time scale can undisturbed air's refraction index appreciably vary?
 * 5) Bioluminescent fungus
 * 6) Study that measures response time and cognitive perception
 * 7) Longevity of fluorsecent lights

= June 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 30


 * 1) Unfertilized ovary and ripened ovary in angiosperms
 * 2) Rh factor in other animals