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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 1

1. Why don't low-carbohydrate diets cure diabetes?
2. Energy Conservation in Sulfur Oxidizers
3. Cancer bringing partners back together
4. Question regarding Physics
5. WDM
6. How large of an animal could exist?

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 2

1. Dremels
2. hmmmm
3. Exothermic reaction
4. Energy of elementary particles and forces
5. Civil engineers in the private sector
6. How to determine the average length of a generation in humans?
7. What is the incentive behind taking vitamins as opposed to eating fruits and vegetables?
8. Does quantum physics really matter?
9. were the birds mating?

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 3

1. Energy of elementary particles and forces
2. Water-damaged tablet displays vertical bands of white
3. possible earth-like planets orbiting single stars
4. why does wind feel colder than still air
5. Unidentified lichen (?)
6. Name a technical device.

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 4

1. Newton trying to convince people that energy is physical
2. Why is a kidney dish so shaped?
3. Symbol & in Html
4. Recovering data from Iphone soaked in salt water
5. Cookies in a Tin - Nitrogen?
6. Somme river flooding

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 5

1. Extinction vs. evolution of defense mechanisms
2. Percent deviation from additivity
3. Medical Satire
4. Tiltwinged and thrust vectoring airliners
5. Could we be in a black hole right now?
6. An antidepressant

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 6

1. What happens if long enough rope is on earth?
2. pressure enough to make "carbon string"?
3. Edible-nest swiftlet
4. Extracellular sodium channel blockers vs. intracellular sodium channel blockers
5. Magnetic quantum number
6. Does petting an human release endorphins?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 7

1. Mechanisms and or Functionalities sought
2. Place with the largest observable part of the other celestial hemisphere
3. preheating oven pointless?

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 8

1. Paint color matching.
2. Mobile phones in walkie-talkie mode - range?
3. Driest place east of the Mississippi river

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 9

1. pressure enough to make "oxgen glass"?
2. 2 2/3 quarks for "positive hole"?
3. proton approaching neutron?
4. anti-proton receeding from anti-neutron?
5. Water universal soluvant as v shaped molcure?
6. Pathophysiology of hemoptysis in PE
7. Baby growth

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 10

1. "glider"? "holed shere"?
2. Light based lifeforms
3. reverse triangle measurement?
4. Scalp vs. Beard Follicles
5. ambiguous state diagram
6. bullets
7. In multiple births, can you get different combinations of fraternal and identical babies?
8. The percentage of surfactants in my washing up detergent
9. 2 Dinosaur questions

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 11

1. Lightning strike
2. How many percents of proteins and fats are taken by our bodies?
3. Loud as a refrigerator
4. Norse pineapples

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 12

1. Percentage of Muslims that self-identify as British-first or muslim first
2. For which person is more easier to lift his hands?
3. Exercise: Repetition vs. weight lifted.
4. Thread gauge T and Z for Go and No Go
5. Orbital axes
6. Icarus again
7. Actual number of turns

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 13

1. Does a photon have any chance of crossing a metal plate?
2. What is the reason that the fox was considered always as the cleverest or smartest among the other mammals?
3. How being a veterinary work?

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 14

1. A method to scientifically test the existence of god
2. Could an asteroid be ring-shaped ?
3. larva on Mentha
4. Formulaic relation between two units
5. Would dynamic tension work in space?
6. Measuring calories

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 15

1. H2CL2
2. Where are Salmonella bacteria are founded in the eggs?
3. Looking for the Full List
4. Nostrils--- one or two?
5. Gas analysis
6. its all about light

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 16

1. .1 (leading 0 is implicit)
2. Species of deer fly
3. Can a pregnant woman become pregnant again while still pregnant?

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 17

1. Parachuting
2. bioengineering a space telescope lens
3. Go/no go thread gauge
4. Free gases

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 18

1. Polypropelyne capacitor marking
2. Seeking a Reference
3. Acctim radio controlled clock module
4. Cat in a new home

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 19

1. Human height data
2. Why do women prefer tall men (besides these reasons)....
3. Evolutionary body hair reduction in females
4. Where in a plasmid map is 0 bp?
5. Can grape consumption kill true foxes?
6. Light trajectory inside a rocket at uniform speed
7. Chermetids
8. Lifeboats
9. Sense of smell

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 20

1. Diamond in a rock tumbler
2. Dinosaur skeletons
3. Equal distribution
4. Capacitor information sought
5. Staphylea colchica flowers
6. Are both soft and hard brake checks dangerous?

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 21

1. What form can "HCO" can have?
2. Hydrogen inbetween Lithium films? Helium inbetween carbon films? Spherical spaces in carbon, silicon, or "sulfer glass"?
3. 500 tons of TNT
4. Does a pin get blunter without being used?
5. 'Hybrid' cells
6. Residual radioactivity after detonating a nuclear bomb

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 22

1. Standard for CR123A batteries
2. Non-question FYI for archaic medical terms
3. Etymology of sphygmomanometer
4. Whats the limit?
5. Cygnus CRS OA-6 return

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 24

1. Cellulite in other species
2. Elephant skulls
3. Concorde's yellowish exhaust
4. Vitamin decay?
5. Trace element

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 25

1. Anti muscarinics
2. Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium - food source?
3. how can I disclose a carved mountain photo, with several figures carved on it.
4. How do people know so much of ancient history?
5. Bum zits

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 26

1. Pure gold as a structural material
2. Arsenic addiction
3. Can anyone identify what this structure is?
4. δ34S
5. how to calculate resistor values in [http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115939/how-does-this-h-bridge-circuit-work this circuit]?

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 27

1. Anti muscarinics
2. Rare earth hypothesis and young earth creationists
3. Genetic change of people in africa
4. Plate tectonics, kinematics, dynamics

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 28

1. Floating ants
2. Is it possible to align the rotation of molecules in a liquid, and does this affect its bulk properties?
3. Filling the tank of a rental during a hot day, checking out, and getting the gasoline level checked at night
4. Supersonic kick in the cabin
5. Dehorned Rhinos

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 29

1. Habitable black holes [i.e. spherical chunks of rock, water, etc. with a primordial black hole at the center]
2. Have branching spikes been invented yet?
3. Insulation causing damp in houses

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 30

1. Exploding playing cards

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 31

1. Mathematical expression for buyoancy or upthrust
2. What is this flower?
3. serotonin and sleep are directly proportional or inversely?
4. because the liver converts serotonin into 5-hiaa, can reduced level of 5-hiaa and increased serotonin occur in impaired liver by hepatitis?
5. Florida Alligator able to survive in Burma?
6. Severed corpus callosum experiment
7. Physics area-Conical Pendulum- Search for modern uses