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September 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 1

1. Do devices compete against each other in an electrical installation?
2. Are sperm alive?
3. When athletes train explosive power
4. Black hole star
5. Eye muscles

September 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 2

1. Photoelectric effect
2. Screen energy demand on laptop
3. Which paper at sciencedirect for this Lancet paper?
4. Which optical illusion is this?
5. Unknown watch
6. Stem cell

September 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 3

1. How will the Arx Pax "tractor beam" work?
2. ‘Big Bang’ – ‘Protogalaxies’ - ‘Protostar’
3. Products that are (generally) better the more expensive they are?
4. Fundamentals of Engineering Examination without pre-requisites

September 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 4

1. Which is the best drink to replace fluids you have lost by sweating and why?
2. Magnetized magnet
3. Why have head-phones such thin cables?
4. Heat transfer of a candle in the wind
5. Colorado hawk-like/songbird-like bird call

September 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 5

1. Amyl nitrite and catalepsy
2. Mechanical component that reduces rotation by force x
3. Name this South African grasshopper
4. Refusal to acknowledge mental disability

September 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 6

1. Humans stiffen after death, but beef is tender
2. Double organ transplantation
3. Std statistics
4. Approximately how many generations of ancestors back to single celled organisms?
5. Cacti evolution in the Old World

September 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 7

1. Noise of trucks
2. What do orbital space tourists need to learn/train?
3. What is a Deodora pine?

September 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 8

1. Big Bang & Star(s)
2. Relationship between temperature and latitude
3. Theory of Relativity-Space Warp
4. Calculating the price of things that are never the same
5. Fat goalkeeper to occlude goal?
6. Civil engineering

September 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 9

1. Pressure
2. Electric shocks

September 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 10

1. DNA directionality
2. Is there some animal other than homo * species that make music?

September 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 11

1. "Doctor of divinity" title and dubious characters?
2. why was this suicide of the Germanwings Pilot needed for the airlines, to make airplanes more secure against suicide pilots?
3. Seawater leaking between the plates
4. Is There a Name or Remedy for This Sleep Condition?
5. Newly discovered hominin species Homo naledi
6. Ageometre
7. Is soda water (water+CO2) is non healthy?
8. Is honey better than sugar (From a health perspective), and if it is what the reason

September 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 12

1. neon lamp driver from 9V battery+step up transformer+R+C+neon lamp
2. does it make more sense to buy a USB bitcoin miner (seen on ebay / amazon)
3. Space flight.
4. Condensed Matter
5. Airline safety
6. Taser conductivity

September 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 13

1. Difference between a large multiple star system and a small globular cluster?
2. Mostly cloudy/partly sunny
3. Source gated transistor
4. Over-sampling in archaeology?
5. Single-letter amino acid representation
6. Time traveller's age
7. Rainbow width

September 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 14

1. about boyles law
2. Potato effect
3. Automated hypothesis generation and cell culture machine
4. Brain capacity
5. Namesake vocalization by birds
6. Nuke Mars now, ask me how.
7. Could dogs evolve language?

September 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 15

1. information re subject listed on wikipedia
2. can durex lube be used for an ultrasound?
3. Data analysis: olive oil cuts risk of cancer by 62%
4. Static shock while cycling under a power line
5. Warning markings mimicry - why don't all animals do it?
6. Dopamine chemistry
7. Would bread spoil if it is placed in a 100% sterile environment?
8. Total tooth extraction

September 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 16

1. When you die, what will happen to the microbes that live on your body?
2. Torture
3. Is Sexual Repression real?
4. Graduate responsibility
5. Terahertz astronomy for detecting nucleic acids near Enceladus?
6. Is Anti-persistence forecast skill statistically significant sometimes?

September 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 17

1. Gains and losses at petrol pumps
2. Unidentified twig
3. Cone winding machine
4. Botfly myiasis in the brain
5. Gravimeter in weightlessness

September 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 18

1. Who designs pharmaceutical capsules?
2. The miracle of two concave mirrors
3. Can I mine Gold of gilded objects?
4. Medical advice
5. E = M C squared
6. Closest animal to humans with more than 2 nipples?
7. Poisoning from wood when smoking meat
8. Why would an elephant do this?
9. Metaquestion: Why did my question receive no answers?

September 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 19

1. Primitive solar observation
2. sole hair
3. Estuarine narrowing

September 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 20

1. Why don't people use jetpacks? Because the tech exists, as I understand it.
2. why does the clock of Ahmed Mohamed has so many cables and looks like a bomb?
3. Magnetic core for an electromagnet?
4. How do electronic water conditioners work ?

September 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 21

1. What is the lifespan of leukocites?
2. Diagnosis of schizophrenia (critique of the diagnosis)
3. Maximum feasible speed for a space ship
4. citation or reference to the chemical equation
5. "Waterproof" only not really
6. Disposal of medication
7. What detergents do you buy/offer the best value?

September 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 22

1. How many people have died due to Volkswagen's defeat devices?
2. Concentration of odorant in natural gas
3. North and south pole
4. what exactly is the sense of this kind of a Tractor Road-rail vehicle?

September 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 23

1. This Watch
2. Wavelengths from Outer Space
3. Why is BDD considered separate from OCD?

September 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 24

1. Animals dying after mating
2. Waterproof light fixtures
3. Why are salt pans and dry lakes flat?
4. Physics question (unsure how else to describe)
5. Why is the Baja California Peninsula a desert area?
6. Which uses, overall, the least amount of water, almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk?
7. NOx in diesel vs NOx in gasoline engines
8. A few questions about prison hooch
9. Mutation of yogurt bacteria

September 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 25

1. Fish tank hook up
2. Driving a steam train
3. is this airsoft weapon so strong that it destroys the magazine?
4. Icelandic rifting period
5. Saving lives and time paradoxes

September 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 26

1. Are people with Asperger or autism more prone to stalking?
2. Musician's fine motor control vs. weight training
3. Superconductor question
4. popullation
5. Can small plastic test tubes survive freezing with water in it?
6. Question 1: Ton Of Gay Aspies?
7. Question 2: Getting To The Bottom Of Health Effects
8. Exploring Europa's Ocean
9. Armadillo Relations
10. supermoon

September 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 27

1. Midges active months in Scotland
2. Visibility of nearby nebulae
3. Falling block and Newton's 3rd law
4. Sulfur in the Bible
5. Do banana actually causes to constipation?
6. Blood borne illnesses
7. Tonight's lunar eclipse

September 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 28

1. Erysiphe and humans
2. Regarding the Placebo Effect and Nocebo Effect
3. Using disposable diapers as paper towels
4. I don´t understand this picture..
5. Were Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell right?
6. New species?
7. How many cavities does the brain have?
8. What happens to atmospheric particles lost to space?
9. Twins can have different fathers?
10. Similar appearance and mannerisms too

September 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 29

1. Spider ID
2. Extraterrestrial life
3. More twin questions
4. Synthesizing acetone from urine
5. Discussing MyD88
6. Does penicillin have sulfa

September 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 30

1. What compound is it?
2. Record number of daily seizures
3. This Watch
4. Meaning of elemental mass
5. Gravity and Hubble's constant
6. Superconducting DC transformer
7. Domesticated but not by choice
8. A Simple Amplifier