Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/May 2018

= May 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 1


 * 1) Abortion pill, surgical abortion, and natural abortifacients
 * 2) Sunlight amplification by glasses
 * 3) Dinosaur skeletons
 * 4) Anti-anthropogenic return to our natural greenhouse

= May 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 2


 * 1) In what stage the muscle cell should get the stimulus?
 * 2) Is the Lepton Number of the Universe a large negative value?
 * 3) Air changes per hour
 * 4) Can those very big square batteries for flashlights leak if stored for years?

= May 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 3


 * 1) program or website to identify stars/constellations?
 * 2) Leaned over mountain peaks
 * 3) Free fall mechanics

= May 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 4


 * 1) Complete analgesia
 * 2) Need help identifying species of waterfowl
 * 3) Is the finger in dam short story scientifically possible?

= May 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 5


 * 1) Is there a way to connect a headset (heaphones and microphone) to a fax machine?

= May 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 6


 * 1) Unknown pet
 * 2) Yesterday was National Astronaut Day
 * 3) Could a DC device be 'agnostic' regarding the polarity of the current it receives?
 * 4) Abies canadensis?

= May 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 7


 * 1) Harbor Seal colors
 * 2) Prostate and pancreas
 * 3) Space launch

= May 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 8


 * 1) Is this true?
 * 2) What are the widest subway cars ever in service?

= May 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 9


 * 1) Identifying marine invertebrates
 * 2) syzigium cumini.

= May 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 10


 * 1) Atropisomerism

= May 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 11


 * 1) Extreme points
 * 2) canned corned beef
 * 3) Why doesn't a monopropeller cause an airplane to roll?
 * 4) Ice age temperature

= May 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 12


 * 1) Enthalpy of Reaction for Ethylene and Water
 * 2) The Bill
 * 3) Condoms failing despite perfect use
 * 4) Bird

= May 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 13


 * 1) What do these symbols mean?

= May 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 14


 * 1) Route of administration of aspirin
 * 2) Does monoamine oxidase inhibitors not change the level of acetylcholine?
 * 3) Definition of protein complex
 * 4) What sets the northern limit of spring-ripening barley of the Passover-postponement rule phenotype?

= May 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 15


 * 1) Space launch, part 2
 * 2) Finding off-target cleavage sites of Cas9 by dCas9-ChIP: biased technique?
 * 3) Half-cell basics review
 * 4) Supernova is loud

= May 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 16


 * 1) What isomer is this

= May 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 17


 * 1) Leaving group vs Nucleophile
 * 2) What Does Spironolactone have to do with Chronic heart failure that other diuretics doesn't have?
 * 3) STO cells; what does STO stand for?
 * 4) Joseph-Louis Lagrange
 * 5) Can I say that every allergy is autoimmune disease?
 * 6) Yanny or Laurel

= May 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 19


 * 1) What could a human notice if his antipodal hemisphere instantly disappeared?
 * 2) What to call it?
 * 3) How do milk and eggs whilte function as anti intoxication?
 * 4) Quantum (and classical!) speed limits

= May 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 20


 * 1) Organic Mechanism Steps
 * 2) What is sodium nucleotide?
 * 3) Brain wiring

= May 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 21


 * 1) Entamoeba coli
 * 2) Hands are always cold
 * 3) Pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor fuel pin

= May 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 22


 * 1) Types of wave through wall
 * 2) VOR/DME approaches
 * 3) turmeric with black pepper vs crcumin with piperine
 * 4) Fat

= May 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 23


 * 1) Mass spectrometry
 * 2) What's the strongly orange-colored fungus that grows in the Mid Atlantic states?
 * 3) Apollo reentry and "equivalent power" for the heatshield?
 * 4) What makes decibels of whistles higher?
 * 5) Weird pond creature

= May 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 25


 * 1) Laurel-Yanny followup
 * 2) Car engine = kW/hp calculation
 * 3) Compressing the H and O of one liter of water
 * 4) Quantum spin
 * 5) What makes a ruminant's milk more dangerous than human breastmilk that it needs to be pasteurized before consumption?
 * 6) What does it mean “patient K”?

= May 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 26


 * 1) Semi-automatic Pistols

= May 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 27


 * 1) Sunset
 * 2) worth putting candles in greenhouse?
 * 3) What is the actual English name for scientific name "Cucumis melo var. chate"?
 * 4) Evolution of brain image processing

= May 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 29


 * 1) Chemistry: Glass joint compatibility
 * 2) Gas layer seperation
 * 3) E-nicotine vs. Devil's Tobacco - which is less dangerous?

= May 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 30


 * 1) Date of "power-is-over" ?
 * 2) How important is sleep for being able to concentrate well?
 * 3) When would today's temperature in Kelvin be relevant?

= May 31 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 31


 * 1) Laurel-Yanni, again