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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 1

1. Classic car
2. Is cotton candy flammable?

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 6

1. Gears in gym equipment
2. Thought experiment: Star with mass in the Brown dwarf mass range with a lot of fissionable elements

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 7

1. relation of human-fungi for antibiotics

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 8

1. Chronology of algebras
2. Insect identification
3. Human Predation
4. Where’s Greta when you need her?
5. Help me identify raptor

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 9

1. Minimising water wastage

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 10

1. Effects of aviation on climate change via contrails

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 11

1. Quark Magnetic Resonance
2. Why don't primates live in Europe and the Middle East?
3. What in common to all vitamins B group (except for water solubility)?

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 12

1. Other animals with Sexual Maturity after age 10.
2. Cloning Elon Musk

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 13

1. Methane
2. Is "ScienceNews template" useful - or not?

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 14

1. Sunflower plants in the Land of the Midnight Sun
2. Sea partons

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 15

1. Lye & metal
2. tick bite
3. medicine myths newsletter

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 16

1. Wow! sushi
2. CO₂ warming mechanism

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 17

1. Health effects of tea and coffee

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 18

1. Health effects of wine
2. Quantitative connection of electronic effects in structure of substances to bond energy

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 20

1. Why do heat index values go below the actual temperature?

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 21

1. According to the logic of racist “geneticists”...
2. Cure for cancer and selective pressure

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 22

1. Insomnia and sexual frustration
2. Potato salad and health
3. How many bones are in a dolphin?
4. UK rail electrification in passenger-kilometre terms

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 23

1. Dieting to lose belly fat
2. Coronavirus mortality rate
3. Vegetarianism and weight loss

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 24

1. How healthy are fruit juices?
2. After Man Continental Drift.

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 25

1. hazard classification of hexafluorosilicic acid
2. People with influenza drinking tea

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 26

1. gallbladder removal

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 27

1. Health effects of drinking human blood
2. Bransden and Joachain, Introduction to QM
3. Oxford Electric Bell

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 29

1. Acupuncture injuries
2. Do travel restrictions stop virus outbreaks spreading? Comment Reply Suggestion Reply
3. Taste of food
4. Supernova

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 30

1. Car rolling down slope
2. Looking for a chemist who has seen Dark Waters
3. Muscle twitches before sleep

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 January 31

1. Triple point of water
2. String vibratio