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August 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 1

  1. Atomic spectrum
  2. Live flu vaccine causes extroversion?
  3. Does astrology say anything about when technological/social progress has head/tailwinds?
  4. Why only 2nd period elements show diagonal relationship?
  5. Why are underground power lines still vulnerable to electrical storms?
  6. Is it even remotely possible that this isn't a scam?

August 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 2

  1. protect US electrical grid
  2. Things
  3. Loga
  4. Heat screen
  5. Could more co2 be good for the planet?
  6. Medicine package US and Europe
  7. Pressurize
  8. Vitamin overdose
  9. Soluble medication pills.
  10. Medicine without side effects.

August 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 3

  1. Crescent Moon illumination
  2. Airliner emergency exits
  3. Where do kangaroos come from and what are they made of?
  4. What part of your brain is "You"?
  5. R/C control of a 12v drive motor
  6. Usefulness and accuracy of racialist website
  7. Zyprexa interacting with vitamins.
  8. How much vitamin B6 for akathisia?

August 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 4

  1. # of days Medicare pays in rehab
  2. Bee-eater pic
  3. Father
  4. Is it possible to study human language development
  5. Do boron exists in asteroids?
  6. Fooling Archimedes?
  7. What kind of insect is this?

August 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 5

  1. CNC milling?
  2. Poison ivy for apes
  3. Drawback or limitation of modern synthetic theory of evolution or neo-Darwinism
  4. Who was Dr Price?
  5. Epilepsy: is there a limit to how often seizures can be photoinduced?
  6. Human decontamination
  7. Deep space travelers beware

August 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 6

  1. Which human ancestors invented fire?
  2. Type of solid
  3. American plague
  4. DNA questions

August 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 7

  1. Creating a Faraday cage without matter.
  2. KDKA's weakened radio signal
  3. Melting and boiling points of the heavy alkali metals
  4. Relative motion..
  5. Why no industrial scale production of human breast milk using transgenetic cows?
  6. Most abundant organic polymers

August 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 8

  1. Water-soluble material ?
  2. Cancer
  3. structure of element 171
  4. The social structure of ants, bees etc. and the evolutionary explanation to their sexual reproduction
  5. Are all flames produced by fire?
  6. mathematical proof to evolution

August 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 9

  1. Stages
  2. Whey protein
  3. Placebo and nocebo effect
  4. How long after eating does "take with meal" not apply
  5. Dog reproduction
  6. Relative velocity?
  7. triple / triangle of life in emergency

August 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 10

  1. Magnetic lines of force
  2. How many kinds of blood cells are there?
  3. Main Battle Tank
  4. on difference between serum and plasma?
  5. String bass v fretless bass guitar

August 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 11

  1. A question of perception
  2. science )How did big bang occur?)
  3. State of matter of large biological molecules
  4. Can a zebra be ridden like a horse ?
  5. Low testosterone in women and low estrogen in men
  6. is this poison ivy???

August 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 12

  1. Engine brakes restricted.
  2. IUPAC additive nomenclature
  3. Creep Rate Tensor
  4. Lymph node removal and blood pressure measurement
  5. How do I compute the charging time for Li-ion battery?
  6. plasma of blood and plasma of television
  7. A weird 100 F happen around Cape Horn

August 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 13

  1. Who burns more calories
  2. Seat collision for swing ride caused by wind - how?
  3. Theory of Relativity
  4. Asthma
  5. Origins Of The Universe: Steady State & Big Bang Theories
  6. In relativity, whether actual mass changes or not
  7. Hawking radiation and the formation of black holes.
  8. AM radio reception (unconventional)

August 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 14

  1. Ship traffic controller
  2. How is this slide possible?
  3. Fatty acids and the brain

August 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 15

  1. Binary star systems and their planets
  2. nipples
  3. Butterfly Wings
  4. Is the daytime aurora visible in Northern Norway?
  5. Electric rocket propulsion: propellants and ground based use

August 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 16

  1. Identification of bug
  2. Vacuum pump
  3. Gingko biloba cutting
  4. Fireflies completely gone from Indianapolis suburbs! Why?
  5. identify a plant
  6. Bom
  7. Bom 2
  8. Neutron gamma gamma
  9. How to compute the RGB values from the raw data of the camera?
  10. About running--------
  11. Thermic effect of food

August 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 17

  1. Early gum disease
  2. using FASTA format
  3. Engine braking II
  4. Dragonfly behaviour

August 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 18

  1. what substance is this
  2. How accurate is long-range DNA analysis?
  3. Basics of blisters
  4. audio recording
  5. recording video
  6. Contradicting specification on the density of Sulfur hexafluoride ?
  7. Stephen Hawking and The "Multiverse" - Does he really believe it?

August 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 19

  1. Psychology of pricing and beach nourishment projects
  2. I've been reading that cancer cells communicate with each other...
  3. Upside down Mirror Image
  4. Antibiotics - Safe Amount To Take
  5. Probability to find a electron in a specific region
  6. Suppressors of evolution?
  7. how many percents of cpr cases are successful?
  8. Alcubierre drive

August 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 20

  1. Hypothermic/hypothermia surgery
  2. sun setting at different times
  3. Anchors unzipping
  4. Human body maximum performance
  5. examples of organs which made of some kinds of tissues
  6. doing a blood test for who did mastectomy
  7. Raid Fly Spray

August 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 21

  1. Carbon Footprint Q: Whose foot is that, then?
  2. Transmission of light through transparent medium
  3. Is there any organ that made of only one tissue?
  4. Absorbtion of non-soluble medicine.
  5. nervus cells called neurons?

August 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 22

  1. if Mars still have more greenhouse effect like Earth
  2. Do how old scientific articles matter the accuracy of informations?
  3. How do I identify a new type of earthworm?
  4. Getting a tattoo while tanned or burnt
  5. I have a Toad in my house but I can't find him!!!
  6. Explanation for the acronym SWE
  7. Effects of music while working & studying on performance
  8. Temperature ranges of gas giant moons

August 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 23

  1. the shape of heart
  2. Breathing
  3. Alternative classification of Carnivora
  4. Enemy locked onto heat signature; release flares
  5. Is there any condition in which two vectors can be divided?
  6. Gap spanners on the International Space Station
  7. the haert rate in different bodies sizes
  8. survive in a space station without air renewal
  9. Femininity facial analysis?
  10. Geology/Pleistocene/CLIMAP
  11. Adults

August 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 24

  1. World's biggest skyscraper
  2. Strongest known tornado outside of the United States; A question about the Fujita scale
  3. Astigmatisms and autostereograms
  4. What scientific problems have been proven impossible to determine?
  5. Why do the women have less blood than men?
  6. metal mixture
  7. A mineral that heats on contact

August 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 25

  1. Fear and adrenaline
  2. Not too bright...
  3. engineering
  4. physics
  5. Stanford Torus / Elysium orbital habitat
  6. the heart realy in the size of the fist?
  7. Hairs and nails
  8. Underwater train

August 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 26

  1. Which source is more trustworthy on masturbation?
  2. Boric acid
  3. Line on globe
  4. Teflates
  5. Extensively drug-resistant bacteria
  6. Resting heart rate below 30 bpm not unusual?
  7. Graph of Force with respect to acceleration
  8. Alcatraz modern day sewer
  9. About Latitude and radiation

August 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 27

  1. mechanical seal
  2. Battery powered water boiler
  3. Validity of employment tests

August 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 28

  1. recharge standard batteries?
  2. How much would we suffer if Earth was overcast?
  3. Article on Pharm D
  4. What determines a planet's angle of rotation?
  5. Black hole question
  6. Enthalpy of formation
  7. Rope stretch
  8. Homophobia
  9. Weather and sleep
  10. Is there a physical barrier between the peritoneum and fallopian tube?

August 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 29

  1. Can't remember the name of a medical condition
  2. Elysium – "open to space" space station?
  3. How was the moon created?
  4. Antoher black hole question
  5. Ageing
  6. BMI
  7. FAT
  8. dog intelligence ranking

August 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 30

  1. determining probabilities from rate laws
  2. Can you tell a person's race through genetics?
  3. L-system and proportions
  4. Correlation between adultery and education level?
  5. Ferdinand Richters (1849-1914) and Tardigrades - help!
  6. Linear bench power supply for charging batteries

August 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 August 31

  1. DNA and heredity
  2. weathern pattern significance
  3. Are dogs born in winter less smelly than dogs born in summer?
  4. Polonium hydride
  5. Need help with Calculating the slope of the best fit line from a data table?
  6. Throwing away contact lenses
  7. herbicide for vines?
  8. Habits