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February 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 1

  1. Human Respiratory system
  2. Name for length of time that data is recorded for
  3. Windshield wiper fluid vs evaporative cooling
  4. Newton's Dog

February 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 2

  1. What keeps the shiny side of aluminum foil from getting dull?
  2. Ejection Fraction
  3. Trying to link the image with Harry Potter

February 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 3

  1. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 46. Ch.46-4, Ch.46-5 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_46.html]
  2. What is nerve discharge?
  3. What is the name of this disease?
  4. Automatic envelope-opening machines?
  5. Arrector pili muscle and the term 'arrectores pilorum'
  6. Exploding Pyrex
  7. Industrial production of breast milk
  8. What is the reason that products with fructose are for diabetic people?
  9. Magnets and compasses terminology
  10. Why do humans live in one location year-round instead of following the food supply?

February 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 4

  1. Stephen Hawking's illness
  2. Reverse osmosis
  3. Spectrophotometry
  4. Wastewater disposal
  5. Celestial body and person related to the following image
  6. Why aren't opiods commonly used as suicide drugs?
  7. When a fly falls into water then it dies?
  8. Temperature of reflecting material
  9. stalled replicating DNA

February 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 5

  1. For how many times the water is dense than air?
  2. hand sanitizer
  3. Had Abiogenesis Happened Once?
  4. concrete roads

February 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 6

  1. is couscous a liquid?
  2. Units of Mass
  3. Weighing equipment ID
  4. "Exposed: How world leaders were duped into investing billions over manipulated global warming data"
  5. MTHFR polymorphisms

February 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 7

  1. Phases of matter
  2. How many oxygen molecule in any molecule of hemoglobin de facto?
  3. Is blood pressure considered as a hydrostatic pressure?
  4. Human Body vs. Gorilla Body
  5. Can criminal human behavior be predicted before they strike?

February 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 8

  1. Why does the Diesel cycle assume a combustion at constant pressure?
  2. Are devices safe after a blackout?

February 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 9

  1. How is Meclofenoxate produced?
  2. Question about the Physics
  3. Rabies virus detection in blood
  4. "1A6" and "M1" in the context of machining

February 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 10

  1. How do flamingos resist alkali?
  2. Knowledge of Jupiter
  3. Why are my contributions not visible on the main pageJohn(Y-B-F-L) (talk)
  4. Superglue turning white and white extending beyond superglue (on black plastic)

February 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 11

  1. Why people with hypoxemia get blue color (cyanosis) on their skin?
  2. Aircraft tendency to roll?
  3. Why do boys like girls long before spermarche?
  4. Small female dogs getting knocked up by big male dogs
  5. Humidity in heated room vs humidity in cold air
  6. Making breathable oxygen from water

February 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 12

  1. Thanks for your information on the loudness the flying insects but i have still a question that has been unanswered
  2. Antimatter

February 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 13

  1. Lack of certain vitamines andor minerals can make someone more appetative for eating ?
  2. What is the relationship between obesity and metabolic disorders?
  3. Are the viruses infections is forever in the body after the enter?
  4. What does the letter O in blood type O stands for?
  5. Proportional or Gravitational Constant “G”
  6. Hooke and the monk's room

February 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 14

  1. How could the universe be infinite?
  2. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 48. Ch.48-3 [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_48.html]
  3. Nuclear fallout
  4. What to call '2A "self-cleavage" peptide?
  5. What is subcloning? I think article might be wrong
  6. How long does a fecal transplant last?
  7. Nanobots slowing aging
  8. Blood type distribution by country
  9. Does porn change the sexual preferences?

February 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 15

  1. Diabetes type 2 - mechanism of the problem
  2. By which mechanism sex is considered a risk factor for arteriosclerosis?
  3. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 48. Ch.48-4 . Refractive index < 1, phase speed > c [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_48.html]
  4. What type of person makes all the factory parts and programs them to work?
  5. Walking on the moon
  6. One light controlled by two switches

February 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 16

  1. Hiding numbers in a crossed-eye stereogram.
  2. Identify a tadpole shrimp (Triops)
  3. does exercise oxidize us
  4. How do I make a factory?

February 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 17

  1. Plant from Bangladesh
  2. Is abstract thinking unique to Homo sapiens?
  3. Spider and snake

February 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 18

  1. What is the difference between IS:733 and IS:736
  2. Scientific coincidence
  3. Can dogs and cats eat cooked foods?
  4. Antidepressant vs recreational drugs
  5. Killing a tree without chopping it down
  6. Stage of development when freezing developing humans
  7. Illnesses from indirect accidental consumption of animal faeces during outdoor activities

February 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 19

  1. I'd like to have my car tires vulcanized .......... by Buster Keaton's mechanic
  2. Menstruation
  3. If the Solar System were brought to rest relative to the Galaxy then allowed to follow real physics what would the new orbit be?
  4. Infections
  5. Search for Alien life
  6. Theobromine toxicity
  7. LDL and HDL are different from cholesterol?
  8. Are there any microorganisms that wouldn't taste bad if you drank or chewed many grams of them?
  9. Need bibliography about how, when and why to apply statistics
  10. Apollo 8
  11. Question about cryogenic preservation and transgender people
  12. American '80s car
  13. What is the reason that it's more healthy to eat unsaturated fats than saturated fats?
  14. Temperature of boiling liquids

February 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 20

  1. Where did electronegativity come from?
  2. Biology
  3. What dangerous in Diesel exhaust fluid to human body?
  4. Multiple infections simultaneously
  5. each person has thousand of micro punctures developing in the vascularisation - every day?

February 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 21

  1. Wendy's Frosty
  2. Question about the Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation
  3. SpaceX
  4. If you donate a kidney to someone and then somehow manage to acquire your kidney back and to have it be implanted back inside of your body, would your kidney work and function just fine afterwards?

February 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 22

  1. How long does it take before a volcanic island can support trees?
  2. A point where something can be a liquid, gas and solid at the same time
  3. "Designer" benzodiazepine vs "legitimate" ones
  4. Is there a part of North America that can grow all common and semi-common English plants without crippling them?

February 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 23

  1. Does the brain control the heart also?
  2. Ratio of circumference to diameter
  3. Newly discovered earth-size planets at nearby star 40 light years away.
  4. Can a human house provide shelter for the animals, and in return, the animals provide food for humans?
  5. Kinetic energy, Momentum
  6. Quantifying change in equilibrium compositions in gas phase reactions from halving/doubling reaction volume

February 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 24

  1. Blood meal
  2. How much vitamin b12 fortified foods must be eaten as a replacement for animal products?
  3. Why is human intention regarded as unnatural?

February 25[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 25

  1. Feynman Lectures. Lecture 49. Ch.49-4. [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/I_49.html]
  2. Taste of VX
  3. The newly discovered 7 earth size planets II
  4. Extra visual colors via eye tracking?

February 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 26

  1. Stereochemistry
  2. How to hasten the separation of oil from peanut butter?
  3. How far ahead can the weather be predicted with reasonable accuracy?

February 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 27

  1. Why are there so few jet engine manufacturers?
  2. Can earthling plants live on martian soil?
  3. Metallic Hydrogen, Deuterium

February 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 February 28

  1. Auditory preparedness
  2. Water pressure and volume under the sea and at surface