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August 1
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- Evolution of the universe and multiverse
- Pain in shrimps
- Can I use a battery-powered electric toothbrush in the shower?
August 2
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- Will the recently found debris from missing airplane MH-370 help to locate the plane?
- Knee anatomy
- How do mammals that live in seawater avoid dehydration?
- Turner syndrome
August 3
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- Locating the geographic poles of the Earth
- What's inside the hip?
- Impossibility fallacy
- Why do illness symptoms vary so much
- Head tattoo
- DNA lipofection complexes in suspension called an "emulsion"?
- Density of solids at extreme pressures
August 4
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- Huge southwest French spider?
- Contemporary Technologies and the Brain
- Does winter gasoline have higher specific energy?
- Grumman LLV
- Stanene's room temperature super ? conductivity
- Maybe Nikola Tesla wasn't crazy after all ?
- Is this a hoax, fraud or genuine revolution for hair loss treatment ?
- Does anyone know the use of this compass?
- Do we gain/lose self-awareness as we grow older?
- NASA VTOL aircraft testing at Moffett Field in the 1950's
August 5
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- Can anyone identify this plant?
- geometric plane
- Is the length of a river well-defined?
- 5 Alpha Reductase
- Kidney transplant life expectancy
- Nylander's test
August 6
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- Quiet birds
- Egg laying
- Disappearing wildlife
- Can the hairs and the fingernails be regarded as a "benign growth", according to its scientific definition?
- What prism would neither rotate nor invert an image after 90 degrees reflection?
August 7
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August 8
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- How much would oxygen density at the Empire State Building affect athletics?
- What is the purpose of the pigments in our bodies?
- How much CO2 is too much, and how do you calculate it?
- What is the name of the tissue in the external brain?
- Power plant in Mississippi
August 9
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August 10
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- How much would an archaeologist know about dinosaurs?
- Cheapest source of icaridin insect repellent?
- Scientific notation for inverse units (like per unit area or per second)
- Dogs
- Effects of gravity vs. simulated gravity
- Tyre pressure
August 11
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- Can stimulating the brain really cause an orgasm?
- How were these videos made?
- Is there any way to isolate Citrulline from Watermelon ribs?
August 12
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August 13
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- Melanin and light absorption
- If an alien contacts you and ask what's a kg
- The difference between 453 and 467 Hz
- Curved spacetime
August 14
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- Stealing electricity by manipulating apparent power
- Harnessing Light
- E. coli long-term evolution experiment
- A day in the solar system
August 15
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- Interfere the gyroscope
- battery removal
- MEIOSIS
- Explaining detail of homework question in physics
- Is this bad user interface design in a nuclear power plant?
August 16
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- Survival rate when ejecting with ejection seats
- What happens when the inputs to a phototransistor is shorter than its response time?
- Mold on my toothbrush?
- Finding news
- How far can you smell a slaughterhouse?
- What is that in the fridge?
August 17
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- Storks and hail
- Why do human physical, emotional, mental peaks vary so much by study?
- sunlight
- mechanism of beryllium toxicity
August 18
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- Why are we still sending plastic garbage to landfills and not converting them back to oil?
- Sunrises and sunsets in space (seen from the International Space Station)
- An evolutionary biologist that studies biological complexity
- Why do pigeons defecate more profusely compared to other birds like sparrows
- Mixing water
August 19
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- Name that phobia
- Correlation of Microwave Radiation from the Sun at Different Locations
- Can a lens be transparent for infra-red, but opaque for visible light?
- Food: hot or cold, which is best?
August 20
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- Natural Resources and the Environment
- Effects of alcohol on sleep and breathing
- no future for things like computers, mobile phones, touch tablets, will our technological advance reverse severely in the next 20-30 years?
- Soil Desalination
- What is a "cassette" in regard to molecular cloning/DNA?
- Difference between remanufacturing, refurbishment and renovation
- Proof in blood or elsewhere that a diet is working?
August 21
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August 22
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August 23
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August 24
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August 25
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- how can electromagnetic pulses escape from a neutron star's gravity field
- how is the lensing strength of any neutron star , and is there any such lens has been observed
- Time travel
- Why do Americans get completely stoned after having their wisdom teeth out
August 26
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- Majors for people interested in agricultural mycology?
- Why are human stools so offensive?
- Skulls
- Inert foodstuff for satiety whilst dieting
- Boiling Saltwater before drinking it, does it make any difference?
- Big Bang
August 27
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- Average size of 12 year old
- Mixing catechol with formaldehyde and HCl
- decay/equilibrium constant for connecting tanks of unequal pressures
- Have we got an article on ...
- Cosmos
- Anapoles, Majorana fermions, dark matter, invisible silicon disks, quantum computing, the non-radiation from electrons in atoms etc.
August 28
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- Looking at Earth from Space
- Kriegslok
- Placing telescopes on the Moon
- Why is skin more protective than mucosal membranes?
- Is 3D printing really "printing"?
August 29
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- Stellar sized black holes, occasional collision with supermassivemassive black holes
- Vacuum energy
- Some dumb questions about genetics
- voice announcement of circuitbreaker
- Fuel consumption of front vehicle during tailgating
- Boot camp and circuit
- Fitness