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May 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 1
- Why don't low-carbohydrate diets cure diabetes?
- Energy Conservation in Sulfur Oxidizers
- Cancer bringing partners back together
- Question regarding Physics
- WDM
- How large of an animal could exist?
May 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 2
- Dremels
- hmmmm
- Exothermic reaction
- Energy of elementary particles and forces
- Civil engineers in the private sector
- How to determine the average length of a generation in humans?
- What is the incentive behind taking vitamins as opposed to eating fruits and vegetables?
- Does quantum physics really matter?
- were the birds mating?
May 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 3
- Energy of elementary particles and forces
- Water-damaged tablet displays vertical bands of white
- possible earth-like planets orbiting single stars
- why does wind feel colder than still air
- Unidentified lichen (?)
- Name a technical device.
May 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 4
- Newton trying to convince people that energy is physical
- Why is a kidney dish so shaped?
- Symbol & in Html
- Recovering data from Iphone soaked in salt water
- Cookies in a Tin - Nitrogen?
- Somme river flooding
May 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 5
- Extinction vs. evolution of defense mechanisms
- Percent deviation from additivity
- Medical Satire
- Tiltwinged and thrust vectoring airliners
- Could we be in a black hole right now?
- An antidepressant
May 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 6
- What happens if long enough rope is on earth?
- pressure enough to make "carbon string"?
- Edible-nest swiftlet
- Extracellular sodium channel blockers vs. intracellular sodium channel blockers
- Magnetic quantum number
- Does petting an human release endorphins?
May 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 7
- Mechanisms and or Functionalities sought
- Place with the largest observable part of the other celestial hemisphere
- preheating oven pointless?
May 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 8
- Paint color matching.
- Mobile phones in walkie-talkie mode - range?
- Driest place east of the Mississippi river
May 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 9
- pressure enough to make "oxgen glass"?
- 2 2/3 quarks for "positive hole"?
- proton approaching neutron?
- anti-proton receeding from anti-neutron?
- Water universal soluvant as v shaped molcure?
- Pathophysiology of hemoptysis in PE
- Baby growth
May 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 10
- "glider"? "holed shere"?
- Light based lifeforms
- reverse triangle measurement?
- Scalp vs. Beard Follicles
- ambiguous state diagram
- bullets
- In multiple births, can you get different combinations of fraternal and identical babies?
- The percentage of surfactants in my washing up detergent
- 2 Dinosaur questions
May 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 11
- Lightning strike
- How many percents of proteins and fats are taken by our bodies?
- Loud as a refrigerator
- Norse pineapples
May 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 12
- Percentage of Muslims that self-identify as British-first or muslim first
- For which person is more easier to lift his hands?
- Exercise: Repetition vs. weight lifted.
- Thread gauge T and Z for Go and No Go
- Orbital axes
- Icarus again
- Actual number of turns
May 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 13
- Does a photon have any chance of crossing a metal plate?
- What is the reason that the fox was considered always as the cleverest or smartest among the other mammals?
- How being a veterinary work?
May 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 14
- A method to scientifically test the existence of god
- Could an asteroid be ring-shaped ?
- larva on Mentha
- Formulaic relation between two units
- Would dynamic tension work in space?
- Measuring calories
May 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 15
- H2CL2
- Where are Salmonella bacteria are founded in the eggs?
- Looking for the Full List
- Nostrils--- one or two?
- Gas analysis
- its all about light
May 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 16
- .1 (leading 0 is implicit)
- Species of deer fly
- Can a pregnant woman become pregnant again while still pregnant?
May 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 17
May 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 18
- Polypropelyne capacitor marking
- Seeking a Reference
- Acctim radio controlled clock module
- Cat in a new home
May 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 19
- Human height data
- Why do women prefer tall men (besides these reasons)....
- Evolutionary body hair reduction in females
- Where in a plasmid map is 0 bp?
- Can grape consumption kill true foxes?
- Light trajectory inside a rocket at uniform speed
- Chermetids
- Lifeboats
- Sense of smell
May 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 20
- Diamond in a rock tumbler
- Dinosaur skeletons
- Equal distribution
- Capacitor information sought
- Staphylea colchica flowers
- Are both soft and hard brake checks dangerous?
May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 21
- What form can "HCO" can have?
- Hydrogen inbetween Lithium films? Helium inbetween carbon films? Spherical spaces in carbon, silicon, or "sulfer glass"?
- 500 tons of TNT
- Does a pin get blunter without being used?
- 'Hybrid' cells
- Residual radioactivity after detonating a nuclear bomb
May 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 22
- Standard for CR123A batteries
- Non-question FYI for archaic medical terms
- Etymology of sphygmomanometer
- Whats the limit?
- Cygnus CRS OA-6 return
May 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 24
- Cellulite in other species
- Elephant skulls
- Concorde's yellowish exhaust
- Vitamin decay?
- Trace element
May 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 25
- Anti muscarinics
- Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium - food source?
- how can I disclose a carved mountain photo, with several figures carved on it.
- How do people know so much of ancient history?
- Bum zits
May 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 26
- Pure gold as a structural material
- Arsenic addiction
- Can anyone identify what this structure is?
- δ34S
- how to calculate resistor values in [http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/115939/how-does-this-h-bridge-circuit-work this circuit]?
May 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 27
- Anti muscarinics
- Rare earth hypothesis and young earth creationists
- Genetic change of people in africa
- Plate tectonics, kinematics, dynamics
May 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 28
- Floating ants
- Is it possible to align the rotation of molecules in a liquid, and does this affect its bulk properties?
- Filling the tank of a rental during a hot day, checking out, and getting the gasoline level checked at night
- Supersonic kick in the cabin
- Dehorned Rhinos
May 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 29
- Habitable black holes [i.e. spherical chunks of rock, water, etc. with a primordial black hole at the center]
- Have branching spikes been invented yet?
- Insulation causing damp in houses
May 30[edit]
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May 31[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 May 31
- Mathematical expression for buyoancy or upthrust
- What is this flower?
- serotonin and sleep are directly proportional or inversely?
- because the liver converts serotonin into 5-hiaa, can reduced level of 5-hiaa and increased serotonin occur in impaired liver by hepatitis?
- Florida Alligator able to survive in Burma?
- Severed corpus callosum experiment
- Physics area-Conical Pendulum- Search for modern uses