Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/November 2013

= November 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 1


 * 1) space objects swift motion
 * 2) evolution of cancer cells
 * 3) The absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft
 * 4) Reflection
 * 5) Greatest and Least Surface gravity on inhabitable planet?
 * 6) How Can the Most Distant Galaxy be 30 Billion ly away when the universe is only 13 Billion ly old?

= November 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 2


 * 1) Is it easy to separate individual voices from a crowd chatter?
 * 2) Are Operators in physics always linear?
 * 3) If energy is conserved, why do we run out of energy?

= November 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 3


 * 1) Nuclear radation concerns for Utah salt lakes
 * 2) Reversing batteries in compartment saves the batteries from trickle charge depletion, why?
 * 3) Great Flood of 1993
 * 4) Male Body Purposely Permanently Completely (As In 100.00%) Stops Producing Sperm
 * 5) Rubbing contact lenses
 * 6) Mites or similar
 * 7) River chutes
 * 8) Why does milk make food taste less spicy?
 * 9) Impact depth

= November 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 4


 * 1) Why blind army ants do not hunt at night?
 * 2) gases and pressure
 * 3) VY Canis Majoris
 * 4) Empirical evidence for length contraction?
 * 5) Drug use in the animal kingdom
 * 6) Calculating impact depth for neutronium

= November 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 5


 * 1) Earth's total water?
 * 2) John Wayne on the phone
 * 3) Does any Anti-Histamine Nose spray exist on the market?

= November 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 6


 * 1) Why does ice do more damage than liquid water?
 * 2) Mainstream theories of intelligence
 * 3) Conversion of finances to binary
 * 4) Confusing mental with physical illness
 * 5) David Suzuki's recent warning about the Fukushima situation
 * 6) cancer hair follicles and nails
 * 7) Ashkenazi intelligence
 * 8) Fact or fiction: is it possible to be germophobic without having OCD?
 * 9) What's this object falling?
 * 10) Charge a battery in the microwave

= November 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 7


 * 1) Close Encounters of Jupiter
 * 2) Digital to analog signal

= November 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 8


 * 1) stillborn dog
 * 2) Brownish spike-like object in my shoe
 * 3) Physical contact in platonic friendships

= November 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 9


 * 1) What is the climate of Moose Factory, Canada?
 * 2) Alloy Phase Diagrams?
 * 3) NFPA 704: All three = 4?
 * 4) Were there fat cavemen?
 * 5) Cryonic suspension and damage from radionuclides
 * 6) Mainstream scientist
 * 7) Toll-like receptor signaling
 * 8) Microbe versus Tumor Immune response
 * 9) Objects above microwaves

= November 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 10


 * 1) Image quality: 16mm versus DVD/Netflix
 * 2) Momentum vs kinetic energy
 * 3) Why did lunar module dock with command module on the Apollo program
 * 4) Correlation between intelligence and sensitivity to the cold?
 * 5) medical condition. Brokers affasier
 * 6) Occupational precautions regarding chemotherapy
 * 7) Unidentified goose (Orange County, CA)
 * 8) Chronic effects of nerve agent exposure - why?

= November 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 11


 * 1) Plastic cracking due to rapid temperature change
 * 2) Official Specs from Nissan (I don't have a Chilton book)
 * 3) Who's eating our high-energy neutrinos?
 * 4) Storm surge timing

= November 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 12


 * 1) Softening Hair with Electricity
 * 2) Wind force as concrete design factor
 * 3) Question about forces and slopes
 * 4) How did addictive behaviors and procrastination evolve in families?
 * 5) Non-economic meaning of "exchange rate"?
 * 6) Question about quasi- spacetime?

= November 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 13


 * 1) Messages artifically coded into DNA?
 * 2) Volcanism (Earth versus Mars)
 * 3) Is it theoretically possible for machines/vehicles to float like they do in sci-fi stories?
 * 4) Aqueous cream as a moisturiser?

= November 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 14


 * 1) Type of hearing loss with anger at loud sounds
 * 2) Ducks adopt unrelated chicks?
 * 3) Earthling Phone Home!
 * 4) Duel Electric Meter for saving money?
 * 5) Rotor in a cylinder

= November 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 15


 * 1) Using Computers in Space
 * 2) Why m.s-1 instead of m/s?
 * 3) Is there a scientific explanation as to why gay kids are bullied?
 * 4) Capillary electrophoresis
 * 5) Ethology and Behavioral ecology

= November 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 16


 * 1) Fear of abortion
 * 2) spaceship water shielding
 * 3) Lecithin
 * 4) Hot water improving cleaning ability
 * 5) Can I equate "m" from the following two equations?

= November 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 17


 * 1) Biting your tongue
 * 2) Novel electric unicycle design
 * 3) Dynamo lights become ever brighter with increasing speed?
 * 4) Blood glucose result discrepancy
 * 5) science (magnification in parallel and series circuits)
 * 6) Why “g = GM/d^2” prevail over the higher derivatives of position w.r.t time?

= November 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 18


 * 1) Climate of Korea
 * 2) Naming, additively
 * 3) Please help, Heat transfer coefficient of the external fluid flowing steadily over a horizontal plate
 * 4) How to make adult stem cells totipotent?
 * 5) physics gravittation
 * 6) direction of  Jupiter spot rotation
 * 7) Enforced neoteny

= November 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 19


 * 1) Tea for sore throat
 * 2) Could a dog sense radon or the the effects of radon in a basement?
 * 3) "Cyclone Cleopatra"
 * 4) 3D printed stainless steel?
 * 5) Tank duel revisited

= November 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 20


 * 1) Unsure how to calculate a percentage of power to create a solution
 * 2) halting global warming?
 * 3) Effects of masturbation on sperm count.
 * 4) Why doesn't water vapor always condense in water droplets?
 * 5) Radioactivity of technetium and promethium
 * 6) Strange columns

= November 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 21


 * 1) Problems developing life forms on planets around orange and red dwarf main sequence stars
 * 2) Dreamliner takeoff distance
 * 3) Rollerball ink splodges
 * 4) artificial sweeteners
 * 5) Phlegm bacteriotherapy and exotic bacteria
 * 6) Black colors on white people?

= November 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 22


 * 1) Big Xbox is watching you?
 * 2) Snakebite
 * 3) Power required for hovering
 * 4) fluid mechanics
 * 5) For how many percents stress can raise the glucose in the blood?
 * 6) Projectile penetration
 * 7) Yet another room temperature superconductor prediction notable?

= November 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 23


 * 1) Genetically engineering hair color and eye color
 * 2) Redshift experiments
 * 3) Structural elements
 * 4) How (non-rad) hard would it be to turn every cellphone into a radiation detector?
 * 5) Oil for plastics

= November 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 24


 * 1) DNA to RNA to protein synthesis
 * 2) Kirchhoff's first law of spectroscopy
 * 3) Main Battle Tank
 * 4) Gluten and Salt
 * 5) Integration of body temperature signals
 * 6) Snake bite article
 * 7) Permeability of rocks in the soda canyon

= November 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 25


 * 1) Identifying dinosaur species from tiny bone fragment
 * 2) Electrochemistry question
 * 3) Electrolysis
 * 4) Spectroscopic film ?
 * 5) Social inhibition of urination
 * 6) Platinum Daniell cell
 * 7) Liquids at zero pressure
 * 8) Entirely sterile rooms
 * 9) Engineering definition

= November 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 26


 * 1) Must an element's pth ionization energy be greater than its qth ionization energy if p>q?
 * 2) Real life transformer
 * 3) Possibility of chromatophore bacteria using complex pigmentation for crypsis
 * 4) Acid rusted tools

= November 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 27


 * 1) Correct approach to deriving the shell theorem?
 * 2) Historical humans and race
 * 3) How to produce magnesium carbonate?
 * 4) Adding nitrogen gas to chemical bottle to protect from moisture in the air
 * 5) Penguins near the South Pole
 * 6) Old style mechanical railway signal boxes
 * 7) Suicide
 * 8) Is it a fact that ghosts are/aren't real?
 * 9) Eating indigestible foods: what's the point?
 * 10) Killing animals with carbon dioxide

= November 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 29


 * 1) Polar opposites on the globe
 * 2) Dreams
 * 3) I must understand in simple words
 * 4) Heaven's Gate cult
 * 5) Mechanisms of gene regulation
 * 6) Chargers and mobile phone
 * 7) The science of bike puncture repair kits
 * 8) CCHR

= November 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 30


 * 1) Density Matrix
 * 2) Bird ID
 * 3) Waste products
 * 4) FOOD DIGESTION
 * 5) Phase-Change Material
 * 6) Cold effect on stomach
 * 7) Swimming in water in space
 * 8) Why do newborn chickens have yellow plumage?