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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 1

1. Blood relations
2. Vitamin C in raw meat
3. Shovel-shaped incisors
4. Extracting multiple regression lines from a single data set

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 2

1. No electricity for you!
2. Why Does the Annual Mortality Rate Rapidly Increase Between Ages 113 and 114?
3. Earthing
4. spina bifida case
5. Big Bang of nothing
6. How do antibodies kill antigens/pathogens?
7. Weight increments on a digital scale
8. Can a singularity spin?
9. Unexplored Areas
10. Unconscious mind
11. Race and obesity
12. Baby bird identification
13. what physically changes between the ages of 18 to 22 -- fourth years look older than first years, but is it senescence?

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 3

1. Magnitude 10 earthquake by combination of faults
2. Deicing equipment / heaters
3. Ask for help to identify the fungus.
4. Nutrition in Human Breast Milk
5. Filial Imprinting
6. HF solid-liquid transition: densities

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 4

1. Farts
2. Race and Running Speed?
3. Neurology and music
4. Hydrotriiodic acid
5. Involuntary Change of Sexuality?
6. Getting wet
7. How many strings make up a quark?

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 5

1. botox and spoiled food
2. Organic group abbreviations
3. Please explain electricity consumer earthing
4. science/physics
5. Genetically Modified Corn Cell
6. Priority of Köppen classification
7. HERBS in lab
8. Austrian window-box plant; ID, please
9. Can mosquitos breed indoors ?

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 6

1. Question about the plutonium in the curiosity rover
2. Landing on Mars and coming back
3. Updates To Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
4. Thomson jumping ring
5. Sci Fi Movie Another Earth
6. Silviring Analogues for other Metals
7. What makes Curiosity so special?
8. How close would an alien species have to be to detect us if they had our current level of technology?

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 7

1. Scientific article self-criticism
2. Sodium triphosphate alkalinity?
3. H2o2
4. bug identification
5. Proof crosswords help with any objective cognitive function
6. effect of exercise on cholesterol blood testing
7. mars rover

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 8

1. Snowflake uniqueness
2. Mars Science Laboratory average speed
3. What is happening to me?
4. Heater and refrigerator conflict
5. Why doesn't the Mars rover walk on legs?
6. One way human tripulated mission to Mars
7. Analog Alarm (Wrist) Watches
8. What is this insect?
9. Whiteboard that isn't
10. E=mc²
11. A new problem formed on my car at the auto dealer. Your thoughts?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 9

1. Curiosity landing site ?= Pambotis Lacus?
2. Rocket vaporizing launcher pad/tower
3. is olive a citrus fruit?
4. Can flavor compounds and oils dissolve in saturated syrup if they won't dissolve in water?
5. How would all of Earth's electronics get shut down (as depicted on Revolution (TV series)?)
6. Earth-Moon orbit

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 10

1. Metal sorting
2. Doyère, binomial authority for Milnesium tardigradum and so on
3. Incremental cost of second Curiosity-like rover
4. (UK) approx. inch and a half long insect with a long thin sting, wasp colours but not a wasp shape
5. Year we would live on mars.
6. Living longer with a transplanted heart
7. Time manipulation
8. Electromagnetic waves, please help me!
9. psoriasis
10. Beetles common to England seem to come in very specific sizes?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 11

1. Hydroponic Corn
2. Portable train derailer
3. Microscope on Mars
4. Extinct domesticated animals
5. monopole magnets
6. Rubber Eraser
7. Reparative growth and spindle

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 12

1. Column vs flash chromatography
2. Apollo 11 or Apollo XI?
3. Vibro Compaction
4. animal with a large habitat in one continent
5. Race and sport
6. Unexpectedly valid folk taxonomies
7. Can't remember a book title - psychology or social science or possibly human evolution
8. Earthquake damage

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 13

1. When you have a cold and feel weak, what exactly is happening to your body？
2. E=mc²
3. antifungal
4. Height and sexual satisfaction
5. Unidentified Agama
6. Epithelium tissue
7. Strings
8. Was Richard Feynman a frequentist or a Bayesianist or?
9. Physicist
10. How does Slushy Magic work ?
11. tsa

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 14

1. Squiggly rain drops
2. What is the difference between a "larvae" and a "Nymph"?
3. Higgs field vs. Dark Energy
4. Please identify this pill
5. Ternary mixtures and Raoult law
6. All particles moving at the speed of light

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 15

1. Proton equilibrium distance?
2. Hydrogen isotopes
3. Stellar Transition Paradox?
4. How is the LHC able to sustain 5 trillion degree temperatures?
5. Why only one extant species of human
6. West Nile vaccine for humans
7. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photo of Curiosity
8. Increasing human intellect?

August 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 16

1. How are the life cycles of Mollusks and Insects alike?
2. Loch Ness monster
3. Does Neanderthal DNA show nature of sexual unions?
4. what was there before the BIGBANG ?
5. blueshift and redshift.
6. war planes
7. asenapine
8. How long does it take to go from patent to commercialization?
9. current
10. magnet
11. Orange lights, other colors of LED lights
12. Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 17

1. what's the squiggly side group symbol stand for?
2. ET contact book
3. Which jobs require sharp vision?
4. physics/5th Dimension
5. Approximately how much mass does the Milky Way lose each day?
6. Is an apple alive or dead when you eat it?
7. Different magnets
8. Invisibility
9. Tinned pineapple poisoning?
10. Spider identification
11. Archery Accuracy
12. Adrenaline rush
13. Time Dilation Questions
14. Microwave plastic ring

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 18

1. Who is this beetle?
2. +9 oxidation state
3. Specialization related to identification of animal sounds
4. Hi, I need help with this endocrionological equation
5. What is John Money's intention?
6. Black hole = Center of mass?
7. Plant identification
8. Why the climate is not completely cyclic?

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 19

1. Pressure increase on the ground due to an overflying plane
2. Distance of galaxies from Earth
3. Electric Potential
4. Is this stone is natural or human made?
5. Ozone Dangers
6. smell vs taste

August 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 20

1. Looking into the past
2. The physics and etc. of Total Recall (the 2012 remake)
3. Relationship between electricity and intelligence
4. In megatons, what is the total estimated yield of the world's nuclear stockpile?
5. absorption of vitamins
6. Plutonium tetroxide
7. Neuron Anatomy
8. canon 650d, Magic Lantern
9. Please add Vascepa (isosapent ethyl) to Wikipedia Encyclopedia
10. maxwells inductance capacitance bridge
11. What's the percent of NASA projects that get canceled before completion?
12. Unknown snake in the Pantanal
13. Cabbage and lettuce

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 21

1. Sticky Stuff Remover chemical identity
2. What is a Gaussian belt?
3. orchid
4. Estimate altitude from environmental conditions
5. Mass of Thought
6. What about this lizard
7. (Chinese) Vegetable Identification
8. Radius of the universe
9. Multiple Big Bangs
10. Castleton Botanical Gardens
11. Question about oral sex

August 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 22

1. A New Life Beginning at Fertilization
2. Reference Needed for Multiplicity (psychology)
3. srface charge density on a sphere
4. Double tolerance problem article ?
5. can't break speed of sound?
6. Using fuel to cool an internal combustion engine

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 23

1. Breast size and milk production
2. Airspeed
3. Why doesn't kilometers per hour have a special name?
4. Which mobile standards uses OFDM?
5. jerry sandusky
6. Hydrogen at Fukushima Daiichi
7. Bird call identification?
8. lichens: as decomposers
9. Gephyromantis VS Mantidactylus

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 24

1. Brain and Lung Tumor?
2. Higg's field and energy
3. A machine with free will
4. Low signal to noise ratio

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 25

1. What if Earth stopped rotating?
2. Why didn't the world enter a nuclear winter in the mid-20th Cent.?
3. How many calories in a shot of vodka?
4. Kuiper belt object
5. Estuary
6. Vaporizer, cannibis
7. Why do different air masses equilibriate slowly ?
8. DNA

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 26

1. landers and boulders
2. Is It Possible to Change One's "Handedness"?
3. Naked images from interstices in fabric?
4. Does Unriped fruits contain less sugars?
5. Men always taller than their mothers?

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 27

1. This Last Mars rover
2. Stopping neutrinos
3. Finding Electric Field Magnitude and Direction at a Point Charge
4. How come my Prickly Pears won't bloom?
5. Light source measurement in CRI/Ra

August 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 28

1. Symmetries of the Universe
2. Was the flies in Autstalia tamed so that they mainly feed on plants but not trash?
3. The resolution of reality
4. Would entities exist without minds to distinguish them?
5. If a body reverses direction, does it momentarily stop?
6. Historical alternatives to Darwinism (AKA Darwinian evolution)?

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 29

1. Kepler-47
2. Superheating and nucleation
3. Mars Science Laboratory Flight Path
4. professions
5. General anaesthesia
6. Carl Linnaeus Belived In The Fixity Of Species By Divine Creation And Died 31 Years Before Darwin Was Born. Why Then Does The Taxonomic System That Bears His Name Support Darwin's Theory Of Common
7. How audible would it be to a human?
8. Does 'Curiosity' have a microphone on board? if not, then why not?
9. I get the advantages of sexual reproduction, but what are the advantages of having separate sexes?
10. Telomeric fusion and human evolution
11. Any acquired immunity to rubella when an infant gets it pre-vaccination?

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 30

1. Star positions in the past
2. Attractiveness
3. Star Gazing Hobby
4. Raptor factoid
5. Why did people in the late 1800s think an aether was necessary for the propagation of light, when Maxwell's equations show that this is unnecessary?
6. What are the differences between male and female human faces? In words...

August 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 31

1. Is there a way to help someone run faster?
2. Good-looking
3. Corneal vs Cataract Transplants
4. SR & QM unification
5. Ebola Carrier Found