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July 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 1

1. How to dissolve/remove insulation film on magnet wire?
2. Ape Ejaculation
3. Vinegar to clean glass - why?
4. Dead slow, or damn fast
5. No seasons

July 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 3

1. Camera with built in selfie stick
2. Measuring displacement, velocity, acceleration, jerk, etc.
3. Egg Hatching

July 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 4

1. Is the CMB a baby picture of only the observable universe?
2. How interchangeable are injection molding molds?
3. Biology: What bird is this? (mp3)

July 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 5

1. Stars
2. Star formation, Evolution & Mass

July 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 6

1. Sleep immobility
2. Looking for research study paper on Fibromyalgia
3. Elephant seals and rape

July 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 7

1. Determining size of screw
2. Weird pin number setup on QRE1113
3. Can a venus fly trap ingest human protein?
4. How long does it take a droplet of water to evaporate?
5. Sedatives

July 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 8

1. What is the mechanism of vein "burnning"?
2. Bacterial toxicity of Germanium tetrahydride (germaine)
3. Do men judge women's attractiveness based on pheremones?
4. What is the top miles/gallon for a normal car?
5. What is a Booker T bird?
6. Roger penrose is an atheist

July 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 9

1. Steel mill
2. Control and communications engineering
3. Smoking before the invention of the match
4. How long for water droplets to evaporate.

July 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 10

1. where do pigeons get their magnetite from?
2. Sausage cover
3. Is New horizons will be able to send any data to us if we somehow managed to make a contact with it after Pluto flyby?
4. Link between eye colour and short-sightedness?
5. Eye color changing over time
6. Error in spelling of search item
7. What is the reason that KPC culture is sampled from the rectum?
8. Rove Beetle questions
9. about Diabetics curing Hurbal Plant not clear information on wikipedia
10. Age of Alpha Draconis

July 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 11

1. Does Hydrogen peroxide help blood clotting in small wounds?

July 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 12

1. Why an even 100 mg/dL as blood glucose standard?
2. Ferromagnetism
3. Difference in flight time between SEA-HKG and YVR-HKG
4. Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) identification
5. Protecting a hard drive
6. How can the butterfly effect be detected using the scientific method?
7. Is fog harvesting impossible too far inland?

July 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 13

1. What species is this?
2. Scarce pictures of Pluto from New Horizons
3. Annual average sunshine vs total horizontal irradiation
4. Military device
5. False 'controversy'
6. Why do men find fat women attractive?

July 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 14

1. Penis in vagina
2. MAF sensor disconnection
3. How can you determine the percentage some feature is determined genetically?

July 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 15

1. bainbridge reflex
2. Mononucleosis
3. Saved shark? Looked pretty dead to me.

July 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 16

1. What's the name of this rock formation
2. Does ESP8266 has an hardware AES engine or not?

July 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 17

1. What happens when the inputs to a phototransistor is shorter than its response time?
2. Electromagnetic radiation vs particle radiation
3. half life
4. Supermassive black holes
5. Why doesn't the B2 Stealth Bomber need a rudder to control yaw?
6. Big bang(s)?

July 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 18

1. Air conditioning
2. What else do I need for a virtual way to touch a dragon?
3. pipeline spill
4. Magnitude 9 megaquake
5. Space time creation
6. Richard Owens west Canada expedition
7. baby spots
8. Biotech Research- please help!

July 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 19

1. Does shaving your armpits make them smell less bad?
2. Lesbians
3. If civilisation collapsed, could humanity have another industrial age?
4. Engineering in business
5. Hybrid cars: Nickel-Metal Hydride or lithium-ion battery?
6. Singularities
7. Radio-frequency identification

July 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 20

1. What's the formula that predicts telephonic traffic? Is there one for humans instead of phone calls?
2. Coronal sulcus and foreskin of penis

July 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 21

1. Can sound travel through Mars' atmosphere?
2. Quick calculation for viability of camping turbine project
3. Do people ever make birth control for male nonhuman animals?
4. Wild animal photos
5. How many times per day does a normal person leave their house?
6. How to reliably kill all transponders on a car

July 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 22

1. Adult Growth of Vertebrates
2. Solar system distances vs. gravity
3. How does pregabalin work
4. Generic plastic solvent
5. Transporters

July 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 23

1. Differences between industrial electricity prices from different sources
2. Small wind turbine blade design
3. Multiple ring systems around planets
4. That optical illusion

July 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 24

1. How many megapixels equivalent does our eyes have?
2. Nuclear Fission
3. Temperate zones in the Pleistocene

July 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 25

1. Mountain building before plate tectonics
2. Has anyone researched levee failure due to earthquake ground motion?
3. Sphere formation
4. Dextrocycloversion and Laevocycloversion

July 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 26

1. How long does it take for a new habitat to change an organism's DNA?
2. Scar and hair biology
3. Can we have speed greater than c ?
4. Why in Bohr's stationary orbits an electron completes integer wavelengths?
5. How much can ice reduce the temperature in a room.
6. How did we get images of asteroid 2011 UW 158?

July 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 27

1. What chemical properties make soap useful for cleaning?
2. ESV
3. End of domino impulse
4. Desert chimney

July 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 28

1. Multi-cylinder IC engine
2. When drinking sweetened drink (such as cola) is it coming to the kidneys as water molecules?
3. Has any serious effort been made to build a robotic sandworm?

July 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 29

1. Merger
2. Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015_July_21#Wild_animal_photos
3. The handedness of a dead body
4. Maxwell's demon and the Carnot efficiency

July 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 30

1. Why does water get loud before it boils?
2. How many Earth plant species are physically possible?
3. Galaxy merger - Andromeda and Milky Way
4. Does eating oatmeal increase or decrease the iron in the human body?
5. Train deceleration

July 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 July 31

1. What do the galaxies, galaxy clusters and galaxy superclusters revolve around? Do they change place?
2. Sustainable harvesting of wild parrots for the pet trade