Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/December 2008
<< Nov | Science desk | Jan >> |
---|
Welcome to the Wikipedia Science Reference Desk Archives |
---|
The page you are currently viewing is a monthly archive index. While you can leave answers for any questions shown below, please ask new questions on one of the current reference desk pages. |
December 1
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 1
- radiant barrier
- Taste of Food Additives
- Nova and Supernova
- Motorcycle Dynamics
- Time and causality
- Strain Gauges
- Herpes research
- Less known cell line resources
- Timespeed is increasing overtime
December 2
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 2
- If the universe is constantly expanding....
- Physics
- Can we harness the power of tectonic plate movements?
- Big Bang in the USA
- Solving Britain's housing crisis
- Acids taste sour...
- Limit to the number of discovered elements
- Caffeine in potatos?
- Brita water filter
- Bomb into Lake
- Question about volume of helium in a balloon
- arguments against vaccinating babies
December 3
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 3
- Game Over
- Do we have the engineering capability to dig a hole all the way thru the Earth?
- chemical reaction of copper with limestone
- Making metal
- Escaping a black hole
- Coffee
- Protein Structure
- Looking back in time through space
- Smelling your own B.O.
- Measurement of the speed of light
- Rare as hen's teeth
- Mercury's extra day
- Will wind farms, solar power,and ocean wave power destroy the Earth?
- Parrot - how cold is too cold for her?
December 4
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 4
- Kinetic energy weapons or using "flying crowbars" to kill tanks
- Losing weight by cold weather?
- Knee arthroscopy
- Drug making
- Creating a new page
- Decline in LED light output after several weeks of use
- Another LED question
- The Universal Expansion Paradox
- Fox killing 13 penguins
- Double cross product of angular velocity
December 5
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 5
- Einstein's Theory Of Relativity
- Designing difficultiy
- Speed though time
- Carbon monoxide poisoning
- Is this a legitimate scientific study?
- Energy
- LED Grow Lights
- Is it possible to smell your own breath?
- Apparent contradiction in information about tumours
December 6
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 6
- Lysosomes in plants
- Stabilised Pool Products
- Partial and total derivatives
- Strange phenomenom
- Inverse relationship between length of work shift and task performance, employee health
- Magically clean acrylic yarn
- Diamonds
- Irradiated currency
- Bush vs. Obama
- Diffusive Systems
- Radioactive Decay
December 7
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 7
- Electric Tooth Brush
- Rare meat
- Natural orbitational phenomenon
- nepeta
- Why do CFL bulbs take a while to reach full brightness?
- What puts the fluorescence in fluorescent lights?
- making Part II
- Asking the gods of science for some help.
- Common descent
- Displaying carbon and hydrogens in Symyx/ISIS draw
- A California earthquake causing an associated blackout and causing people to see the Milky Way
- Rhizobium
- Long train journey
- Citrus identification
December 8
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 8
- Carbs from Vegetables
- Mushroom Substrate
- Compressing Water
- UK DNA taken from criminals
- Human body voltage
- Longevity
- Island of Stability
- Wikipedia, Censorship and Child Pornography
- Post-docs
- Continuously-cooling device?
- Traction for tires.
December 9
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 9
- Coconut water as an IV
- Extracting oxygen from ferrous oxide (FeO)
- Time Travel
- Containing a super-volcano?
- Stellar Classification
- Energy crisis
- Speed and mass
- Sequence line-ups
- Why does light refract upward at cold temps?
- Cheese and intestinal blockage.
- Road salt
- How do you use microwaves to find out if there's foil inside butter tubs?
- cosmic string
- Native Americans and Atlantis
- Does lemon juice damage your teeth?
December 10
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 10
- Tea and diabetics
- Fleeting bad memories
- Jets flying over populated areas
- Reducing fat
- Clockwork Toy (Homemade)
- LPG
- Test your microwave with a mobile phone?
- paper mache external fuel tank
- Diamonds Part 2
- Travis Pastrana
- Washing up
- Lonely inventor builds working cyborg girlfriend in own home - malarkey or effective way?
December 11
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 11
- Yerba mate
- plants
- Laser cooling
- Crystallisation esp. seen in ice... what is the magic of the hexagon?
- Inhabitable planets larger than the Earth?
- Erection
- 1 calorie
- Spinal injury
- Duck question
- Energy generating floors
- Vanadium foil is used in cladding titanium to steel
December 12
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 12
- cactus
- Detecting bullets and Improvised Explosive Devices
- Water waste
- Question about Recursion
- Pump type
- travertine
December 13
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 13
- Calc-sinter ???
- Small children and names
- What's the cause of an inability to distinguish an actor from a character?
- Schrödinger's Particle Accelerator
- Faster means lower pressure?
- Determining the sex of a seagull?
- Pills
- Ocean floor water temperature
- ESPVR curve shift
- TOOLS/HARDWARE IE:Europian style "cup hinges".
- Freezing hot water
- Chemical depilatory
- Temporal Fenestra
December 14
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 14
- Tuberculosis
- Effect of various pH levels on pepsin hydrolysis
- cacti
- Use of prions in anti viral combat
- Bond Strengths and Electronegativities
- are all cactus edible?
- Why is bacon so delicious?
- telegraph network structure
- Nuclear Re-breather?
- Children
- BLAST not working?
- foods changing color
- Colourblindness
- Driverless cars as means against IEDs
- Human consciousness
- Andromeda collision
- Speed of sound in SF6
December 15
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 15
- Awesome memory of conductors
- PRIVATELY FUNDED CANCER RESEARCH FACILITIES IN THE U.K.?
- Hippocampal dysplasia.
- Density
December 16
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 16
- Density (follow on from the above)
- A critical dictionary of psychology?
- the method to reduce alcohol or menthol scent
- Flat screen moving volumetric display with full vertical and horizontal parallax?
- Most powerful force on earth
December 17
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 17
- The Vagina and an imperforate hymen
- Does human hair change color while decomposing in water?
- Liquid light
- speed of sound
- plants
- Indian apple
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial
- What is the difference between a male seed and a female seed?
- Researching Invention for child's project
- Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation Question
- Helium latex Balloon Questions
- "Good" Chemical
- Evolution of the liver
- Copurification, Pull-down assays, and co-immunoprecipitation
December 18
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 18
- Brazilian copperfish
- cheap lead testing
- Could high energy alcohol be used as a jet fuel?
- fluorimeter/turbimieter
- Exoplanet detections in next decade
- Expansion of the Universe and Perpetual Motion.
December 19
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 19
- Getting a Shine On
- The sky is falling! Positive or negative feedback mechanism?
- how to reduce alcohol or menthol smell but keep the cool function
- IMMUNOLOGY
- Conjoined twins longevity question
- Demineralised water
- beta sisteral
- Symbol for Litre: uppercase or lowercase?
- Burt Rutan comments on V-22 Osprey and 1960's tiltrotor prototype
- optics
- How the heck does a car move?
- Mysterious Music Box Malfunction
December 20
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 20
- Eye Layers
- Question on Perception
- Milk
- Why do young women giggle all the time?
- Artificially recreating the earth's magnetic field
- Flash point of fission in atmosphere
- Why do some children have the concept of growing down after one grows up?
- Why does chronic stress sometimes lead to stroke
- is it possible to produce a novel algorithm USING THE POWER OF THE MIND ALONE? (no other tools of any kind)
- What does the "LIO" prefix mean in the scientific name of "Pocket Mice"?
December 21
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 21
- Hey, have they ever expanded on that life creating experiment thing?
- Lipid Layer
- Identifying an unknown mammal
- Skua vs. Great Black-backed Gull - who would win?
- Whats so special about Half-Integer spin? 59.93.92.192 (talk) 13:23, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
- Mystery flower
- Overcooked vs. burnt food
- Wood-burning stoves, creosote and soup cans
- Esclorophile Bush?
- Paranoid park (spoiler warning)
- Metal detectors for non-magnetic metals
December 22
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 22
- Generator
- Planet destroying energy
- Gravity hole
- Speed of light in another universe
- Particle-wave separation/fusion
- Storing solar lights
- Earth's rotation
- the nearest galaxy
- Acceleration of particles in a secluded system
- Tech Bump
- Secondary minerals?
December 23
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 23
- Material with highest melting point?
- TASTE BUDS
- Science/Humanities question on Egypt's buried tombs
- Why is the static between channels loud?
- Ion slowing down in plasma
- What happens to sexual desire after penectomy?
- nutrition facts
- Genetic Misogyny and sex war?
- Not so bright question...
- A tool for measuring cubic volume
- Non-lethal weapon against gangs
- AeroGarden gizmo.
- Sail all wet?
- Red Panda, Giant Panda thumb.
December 24
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 24
- Happy Holidays!
- Test for fullerenes
- material science
- Hardware design
- on chemistry
- A scientist today?
December 25
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 25
- Swimming in Purified Water
- Testing for lead
- electric fuse
- Lead test kit
- determination of muscle mass
- Chemical reaction (was "test for fullerenes")
- Band Planet
December 26
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 26
- Ashes in the garden
- Electrical Charges
- Proactive Competitor
- Racing Pigeons
- Amateur genetic engineering
December 27
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 27
- Paramedic Milk?
- Cockatiel and budgerigar utterances
- Strange weather seen on radar. Small scale "lake effect" perhaps?
- Binomial authority
- Color of hydrocarbons
- Foreclosure
- Cigarette v. Cigar Second Hand Smoke
- transistor feed back network
- Disodium Edta
- Methylchloroisothiazolinone
- Are there any scientists out there that dont swear?
December 28
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 28
- What is the minimum amount of heat it takes to burn you?
- "Ba humbugi"
- Freesat, free satellite, DVB-T, DVB-S and satellite dish mounting
- Psychoactive drugs and human survival
- chemical reactions
- Can I have some more Sun Conure advice, please?
- You people look all the same to me!!
- Methane clathrates, global warming, and such
- Do photons lose energy?
December 29
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 29
- consuption of electricity by refrigrator
- female virginity question
- Differnece in growth of Neem tree and Banana tree
- What logical fallacy is this?
- Multiple near-death experiences and emotions
- chances developing same affliction
- antibiotics
- Genome: Both good and original, but...
- Putting milk in coffee
- Ni-MH Battery Behavior (Nikon EN-4 knockoff for D1 camera)
- Optimal Eyepiece Diameter
- What is this??????
December 30
[edit]Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2008 December 30
- salt vs. freshwater evaporation rates
- Collisions in an ideal gas
- Why did this atom get together with that atom?
- PROOF
- imortal
- Velocity of an Object under Gravitational Influence
- Motion of an aircraft
- helium
- Passive solar building design
- Waiting for the water to turn hot
- Depth and water pressure