Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/September 2015

= September 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 1


 * 1) Do devices compete against each other in an electrical installation?
 * 2) Are sperm alive?
 * 3) When athletes train explosive power
 * 4) Black hole star
 * 5) Eye muscles

= September 2 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 2


 * 1) Photoelectric effect
 * 2) Screen energy demand on laptop
 * 3) Which paper at sciencedirect for this Lancet paper?
 * 4) Which optical illusion is this?
 * 5) Unknown watch
 * 6) Stem cell

= September 3 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 3


 * 1) How will the Arx Pax "tractor beam" work?
 * 2) ‘Big Bang’ – ‘Protogalaxies’ - ‘Protostar’
 * 3) Products that are (generally) better the more expensive they are?
 * 4) Fundamentals of Engineering Examination without pre-requisites

= September 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 4


 * 1) Which is the best drink to replace fluids you have lost by sweating and why?
 * 2) Magnetized magnet
 * 3) Why have head-phones such thin cables?
 * 4) Heat transfer of a candle in the wind
 * 5) Colorado hawk-like/songbird-like bird call

= September 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 5


 * 1) Amyl nitrite and catalepsy
 * 2) Mechanical component that reduces rotation by force x
 * 3) Name this South African grasshopper
 * 4) Refusal to acknowledge mental disability

= September 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 6


 * 1) Humans stiffen after death, but beef is tender
 * 2) Double organ transplantation
 * 3) Std statistics
 * 4) Approximately how many generations of ancestors back to single celled organisms?
 * 5) Cacti evolution in the Old World

= September 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 7


 * 1) Noise of trucks
 * 2) What do orbital space tourists need to learn/train?
 * 3) What is a Deodora pine?

= September 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 8


 * 1) Big Bang & Star(s)
 * 2) Relationship between temperature and latitude
 * 3) Theory of Relativity-Space Warp
 * 4) Calculating the price of things that are never the same
 * 5) Fat goalkeeper to occlude goal?
 * 6) Civil engineering

= September 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 9


 * 1) Pressure
 * 2) Electric shocks

= September 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 10


 * 1) DNA directionality
 * 2) Is there some animal other than homo * species that make music?

= September 11 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 11


 * 1) "Doctor of divinity" title and dubious characters?
 * 2) why was this suicide of the Germanwings Pilot needed for the airlines, to make airplanes more secure against suicide pilots?
 * 3) Seawater leaking between the plates
 * 4) Is There a Name or Remedy for This Sleep Condition?
 * 5) Newly discovered hominin species Homo naledi
 * 6) Ageometre
 * 7) Is soda water (water+CO2) is non healthy?
 * 8) Is honey better than sugar (From a health perspective), and if it is what the reason

= September 12 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 12


 * 1) neon lamp driver from 9V battery+step up transformer+R+C+neon lamp
 * 2) does it make more sense to buy a USB bitcoin miner (seen on ebay / amazon)
 * 3) Space flight.
 * 4) Condensed Matter
 * 5) Airline safety
 * 6) Taser conductivity

= September 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 13


 * 1) Difference between a large multiple star system and a small globular cluster?
 * 2) Mostly cloudy/partly sunny
 * 3) Source gated transistor
 * 4) Over-sampling in archaeology?
 * 5) Single-letter amino acid representation
 * 6) Time traveller's age
 * 7) Rainbow width

= September 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 14


 * 1) about boyles law
 * 2) Potato effect
 * 3) Automated hypothesis generation and cell culture machine
 * 4) Brain capacity
 * 5) Namesake vocalization by birds
 * 6) Nuke Mars now, ask me how.
 * 7) Could dogs evolve language?

= September 15 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 15


 * 1) information re subject listed on wikipedia
 * 2) can  durex lube be used for an ultrasound?
 * 3) Data analysis: olive oil cuts risk of cancer by 62%
 * 4) Static shock while cycling under a power line
 * 5) Warning markings mimicry - why don't all animals do it?
 * 6) Dopamine chemistry
 * 7) Would bread spoil if it is placed in a 100% sterile environment?
 * 8) Total tooth extraction

= September 16 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 16


 * 1) When you die, what will happen to the microbes that live on your body?
 * 2) Torture
 * 3) Is Sexual Repression real?
 * 4) Graduate responsibility
 * 5) Terahertz astronomy for detecting nucleic acids near Enceladus?
 * 6) Is Anti-persistence forecast skill statistically significant sometimes?

= September 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 17


 * 1) Gains and losses at petrol pumps
 * 2) Unidentified twig
 * 3) Cone winding machine
 * 4) Botfly myiasis in the brain
 * 5) Gravimeter in weightlessness

= September 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 18


 * 1) Who designs pharmaceutical capsules?
 * 2) The miracle of two concave mirrors
 * 3) Can I mine Gold of gilded objects?
 * 4) Medical advice
 * 5) E = M C squared
 * 6) Closest animal to humans with more than 2 nipples?
 * 7) Poisoning from wood when smoking meat
 * 8) Why would an elephant do this?
 * 9) Metaquestion: Why did my question receive no answers?

= September 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 19


 * 1) Primitive solar observation
 * 2) sole hair
 * 3) Estuarine narrowing

= September 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 20


 * 1) Why don't people use jetpacks? Because the tech exists, as I understand it.
 * 2) why does the clock of Ahmed Mohamed has so many cables and looks like a bomb?
 * 3) Magnetic core for an electromagnet?
 * 4) How do electronic water conditioners work ?

= September 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 21


 * 1) What is the lifespan of leukocites?
 * 2) Diagnosis of schizophrenia (critique of the diagnosis)
 * 3) Maximum feasible speed for a space ship
 * 4) citation or reference to the chemical equation
 * 5) "Waterproof" only not really
 * 6) Disposal of medication
 * 7) What detergents do you buy/offer the best value?

= September 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 22


 * 1) How many people have died due to Volkswagen's defeat devices?
 * 2) Concentration of odorant in natural gas
 * 3) North and south pole
 * 4) what exactly is the sense of this kind of a Tractor Road-rail vehicle?

= September 23 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 23


 * 1) This Watch
 * 2) Wavelengths from Outer Space
 * 3) Why is BDD considered separate from OCD?

= September 24 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 24


 * 1) Animals dying after mating
 * 2) Waterproof light fixtures
 * 3) Why are salt pans and dry lakes flat?
 * 4) Physics question (unsure how else to describe)
 * 5) Why is the Baja California Peninsula a desert area?
 * 6) Which uses, overall, the least amount of water, almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk?
 * 7) NOx in diesel vs NOx in gasoline engines
 * 8) A few questions about prison hooch
 * 9) Mutation of yogurt bacteria

= September 25 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 25


 * 1) Fish tank hook up
 * 2) Driving a steam train
 * 3) is this airsoft weapon so strong that it destroys the magazine?
 * 4) Icelandic rifting period
 * 5) Saving lives and time paradoxes

= September 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 26


 * 1) Are people with Asperger or autism more prone to stalking?
 * 2) Musician's fine motor control vs. weight training
 * 3) Superconductor question
 * 4) popullation
 * 5) Can small plastic test tubes survive freezing with water in it?
 * 6) Question 1: Ton Of Gay Aspies?
 * 7) Question 2: Getting To The Bottom Of Health Effects
 * 8) Exploring Europa's Ocean
 * 9) Armadillo Relations
 * 10) supermoon

= September 27 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 27


 * 1) Midges active months in Scotland
 * 2) Visibility of nearby nebulae
 * 3) Falling block and Newton's 3rd law
 * 4) Sulfur in the Bible
 * 5) Do banana actually causes to constipation?
 * 6) Blood borne illnesses
 * 7) Tonight's lunar eclipse

= September 28 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 28


 * 1) Erysiphe and humans
 * 2) Regarding the Placebo Effect and Nocebo Effect
 * 3) Using disposable diapers as paper towels
 * 4) I don´t understand this picture..
 * 5) Were Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell right?
 * 6) New species?
 * 7) How many cavities does the brain have?
 * 8) What happens to atmospheric particles lost to space?
 * 9) Twins can have different fathers?
 * 10) Similar appearance and mannerisms too

= September 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 29


 * 1) Spider ID
 * 2) Extraterrestrial life
 * 3) More twin questions
 * 4) Synthesizing acetone from urine
 * 5) Discussing MyD88
 * 6) Does penicillin have sulfa

= September 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 30


 * 1) What compound is it?
 * 2) Record number of daily seizures
 * 3) This Watch
 * 4) Meaning of elemental mass
 * 5) Gravity and Hubble's constant
 * 6) Superconducting DC transformer
 * 7) Domesticated but not by choice
 * 8) A Simple Amplifier