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June 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 1
- Gas mask training
- This is about a gene named "cerebum", right?
- Gecko's foothold
- Animal species: Recently and unintentionally introduced and now protected/endangered
June 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 2
- Can drones "shell" a target ?
- Terminology: "Payload" in plasmid
- Larsen Ice shelf
- Is it indeed forbidden to clean a rabies wound with alcohol?
- Cooking Climate Consensus Data: “97% of Scientists Affirm AGW" Debunked
- If beans were stuffed up one's nose, then will there be brain injury or choking?
- Asteroids and dwarf planets graphics and animations
- Distributions of asteroids into three types
June 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 3
- 7-9 hours of sleep
- Not chewing food
- Sump pump versus expandable hose
- Dancing Black Holes
- X-ray image
June 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 4
- Electra 10-E
- Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Permafrost
melting - Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 6-3 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/14-ff4130dc56.jpg JPG]
- Suicidal ideation
- How do you solve part A?
- Do animals know that mating leads to procreation
- FIV+ cats
- Are free-moving pets able to recognize the litter box the same way humans can recognize a toilet?
June 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 5
- Cat vs. Empire State Building
- Proteins that do their function at extremely low quantities
- What kind of camera lets you watch the photo appear?
- Interaction of infectious diseases and trauma
June 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 6
- Do fresh mozzerella, paneer, and cottage cheese all really use the same process?
- How fast do the inner electrons go in gold atoms, relativity
- What makes a cell "alive" as opposed to being a clump of organic molecules?
- Quantum coin toss
- Predation vs cannibalism
June 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 7
- 21st century inventions
- Yawning
- Calcium leaching - dietary risk
- Cambrian Explosion and the black holes.
- Original meaning of "corn" in corn flakes?
- 'Fold' in motorcycle helmets
- How fast could a human swim in an infinite universe made of STP air?
June 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 8
- The pleasure of sneezing
- Unknown Antilope
- War stories
- What solvent to rejuvenate a solvent resistant pen?
- carbon monoxide
- Where can I get reliable info about LDL and HDL in quail eggs?
- Taxonomy confusion
- Choosing between 3, 4, or 5 digit long chunks
June 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 9
- If there are more Na+ ions in the extracellular space, then will raw red meat taste salty?
- CG and crosswinds
- Is there a term for functional groups that are displaced during electrophilic substitution reactions?
June 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 10
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercises 7-1...7-11
- What do people mean by "reversing diabetes/CVD"?
- Grey hair
- Is Zaus gland considered as a lacrimal gland?
- Yellow mercuric oxide
- RfC Announce: Wikimedia referrer policy
June 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 11
- Could a dog be trained ...
- Using numbers to make something more believable
- Nuclear reactor
- Anxiety as "the great imitator"
- Tongue-in-cheek scientific studies
- Heat
- Diffusion potentials are created by the diffusion of 'very few ions'? meaning
- Please help identify my pine tree from photos. It looks like a White pine
- What's the difference between an ant colony, bee colony, and a human society?
- What's a "snow fruit"?
June 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 12
- Why does water not have calories?
- What's meant by casual sexual encounters in this study?
- Shared genes between siblings
June 13[edit]
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June 14[edit]
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- Watermelon rind
- Zero calories
- Improvement of Hipparchic cycle
- Magnetic stirrer
- Quantum cryptography in commercial environment
June 15[edit]
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June 16[edit]
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- Refined grains and food security
- Spermaceti organ weight
- London tower block fire engineering
- how does this circuit work?
- Quantum communications II
- Can non-treated diabetes cause neurological damage?
June 17[edit]
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June 18[edit]
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June 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 19
- Why does the squirty hand soap dribble in hot weather?
- Why does Earth keep getting nearer and nearer to the edge of the "habitable zone"?
- Health effects of sulforaphane
June 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 20
- What is the nonmetallic liquid with the highest surface tension?
- Can you make thiourea from urea?
- What mug material would make it hardest for soda bubbles to resist their buoyancy?
- How much damage would an explosion at Trinity that barely destroyed New Mexico cause?
June 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 21
- Tendons and ligaments are classified under muscular or bone system?
- Death = last thing seen gets imprinted in the eye
- Dicotyledonous wood
- Solar eclipse hype
- What plane is this
- Can acetic acid in aqueous solution alone pickle foods?
June 22[edit]
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June 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 23
- Random chance, probability, and predictability
- Can wine and beer be used to clean stuff?
- Pinhole Camera
- Blocking gravity waves?
- Can a leaning tower be built in a stable way ?
June 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 24
- What Herbivores and Omnivores could realistically live and even thrive in an arctic land where snow covered the ground most of the year ?
- Is it a goat or a cow?
- Ethidium bromide (done)
- Wetness meter
June 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 25
- Species in which females are aggressive and males passive
- Physics: Can a changing spacetime be used to generate unlimited energy?
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 7-4 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/16-b75863d902.jpg JPG]
- Bringing home the process of making industrial nutritional yeast - how to do it?
June 26[edit]
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- A guy where I work contends that CSPAN is actually harming democracy and functioning of usa legislature.
- Engine knocking
- See THIS comment!
- Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 7-11 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/17-717d48fec1.jpg JPG]
- Have there ever been lunar calendars where a solar eclipse makes the month start early?
June 27[edit]
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June 28[edit]
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- Characteristics of a predator
- Can cross spiders (Araneus diadematus) change colour to match their surroundings?
- Can hydrogen conduct electricity?
June 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 29
- Physics in different engine designs
- Changing the refractive index of air (without heating it).
- Dual SIM
- On what size and time scale can undisturbed air's refraction index appreciably vary?
- Bioluminescent fungus
- Study that measures response time and cognitive perception
- Longevity of fluorsecent lights