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September 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 1
- Do devices compete against each other in an electrical installation?
- Are sperm alive?
- When athletes train explosive power
- Black hole star
- Eye muscles
September 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 2
- Photoelectric effect
- Screen energy demand on laptop
- Which paper at sciencedirect for this Lancet paper?
- Which optical illusion is this?
- Unknown watch
- Stem cell
September 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 3
- How will the Arx Pax "tractor beam" work?
- ‘Big Bang’ – ‘Protogalaxies’ - ‘Protostar’
- Products that are (generally) better the more expensive they are?
- Fundamentals of Engineering Examination without pre-requisites
September 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 4
- Which is the best drink to replace fluids you have lost by sweating and why?
- Magnetized magnet
- Why have head-phones such thin cables?
- Heat transfer of a candle in the wind
- Colorado hawk-like/songbird-like bird call
September 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 5
- Amyl nitrite and catalepsy
- Mechanical component that reduces rotation by force x
- Name this South African grasshopper
- Refusal to acknowledge mental disability
September 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 6
- Humans stiffen after death, but beef is tender
- Double organ transplantation
- Std statistics
- Approximately how many generations of ancestors back to single celled organisms?
- Cacti evolution in the Old World
September 7[edit]
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September 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 8
- Big Bang & Star(s)
- Relationship between temperature and latitude
- Theory of Relativity-Space Warp
- Calculating the price of things that are never the same
- Fat goalkeeper to occlude goal?
- Civil engineering
September 9[edit]
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September 10[edit]
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September 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 11
- "Doctor of divinity" title and dubious characters?
- why was this suicide of the Germanwings Pilot needed for the airlines, to make airplanes more secure against suicide pilots?
- Seawater leaking between the plates
- Is There a Name or Remedy for This Sleep Condition?
- Newly discovered hominin species Homo naledi
- Ageometre
- Is soda water (water+CO2) is non healthy?
- Is honey better than sugar (From a health perspective), and if it is what the reason
September 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 12
- neon lamp driver from 9V battery+step up transformer+R+C+neon lamp
- does it make more sense to buy a USB bitcoin miner (seen on ebay / amazon)
- Space flight.
- Condensed Matter
- Airline safety
- Taser conductivity
September 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 13
- Difference between a large multiple star system and a small globular cluster?
- Mostly cloudy/partly sunny
- Source gated transistor
- Over-sampling in archaeology?
- Single-letter amino acid representation
- Time traveller's age
- Rainbow width
September 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 14
- about boyles law
- Potato effect
- Automated hypothesis generation and cell culture machine
- Brain capacity
- Namesake vocalization by birds
- Nuke Mars now, ask me how.
- Could dogs evolve language?
September 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 15
- information re subject listed on wikipedia
- can durex lube be used for an ultrasound?
- Data analysis: olive oil cuts risk of cancer by 62%
- Static shock while cycling under a power line
- Warning markings mimicry - why don't all animals do it?
- Dopamine chemistry
- Would bread spoil if it is placed in a 100% sterile environment?
- Total tooth extraction
September 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 16
- When you die, what will happen to the microbes that live on your body?
- Torture
- Is Sexual Repression real?
- Graduate responsibility
- Terahertz astronomy for detecting nucleic acids near Enceladus?
- Is Anti-persistence forecast skill statistically significant sometimes?
September 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 17
- Gains and losses at petrol pumps
- Unidentified twig
- Cone winding machine
- Botfly myiasis in the brain
- Gravimeter in weightlessness
September 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 18
- Who designs pharmaceutical capsules?
- The miracle of two concave mirrors
- Can I mine Gold of gilded objects?
- Medical advice
- E = M C squared
- Closest animal to humans with more than 2 nipples?
- Poisoning from wood when smoking meat
- Why would an elephant do this?
- Metaquestion: Why did my question receive no answers?
September 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 19
September 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 20
- Why don't people use jetpacks? Because the tech exists, as I understand it.
- why does the clock of Ahmed Mohamed has so many cables and looks like a bomb?
- Magnetic core for an electromagnet?
- How do electronic water conditioners work ?
September 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 21
- What is the lifespan of leukocites?
- Diagnosis of schizophrenia (critique of the diagnosis)
- Maximum feasible speed for a space ship
- citation or reference to the chemical equation
- "Waterproof" only not really
- Disposal of medication
- What detergents do you buy/offer the best value?
September 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 22
- How many people have died due to Volkswagen's defeat devices?
- Concentration of odorant in natural gas
- North and south pole
- what exactly is the sense of this kind of a Tractor Road-rail vehicle?
September 23[edit]
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September 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 24
- Animals dying after mating
- Waterproof light fixtures
- Why are salt pans and dry lakes flat?
- Physics question (unsure how else to describe)
- Why is the Baja California Peninsula a desert area?
- Which uses, overall, the least amount of water, almond milk, soy milk, or rice milk?
- NOx in diesel vs NOx in gasoline engines
- A few questions about prison hooch
- Mutation of yogurt bacteria
September 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 25
- Fish tank hook up
- Driving a steam train
- is this airsoft weapon so strong that it destroys the magazine?
- Icelandic rifting period
- Saving lives and time paradoxes
September 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 26
- Are people with Asperger or autism more prone to stalking?
- Musician's fine motor control vs. weight training
- Superconductor question
- popullation
- Can small plastic test tubes survive freezing with water in it?
- Question 1: Ton Of Gay Aspies?
- Question 2: Getting To The Bottom Of Health Effects
- Exploring Europa's Ocean
- Armadillo Relations
- supermoon
September 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 27
- Midges active months in Scotland
- Visibility of nearby nebulae
- Falling block and Newton's 3rd law
- Sulfur in the Bible
- Do banana actually causes to constipation?
- Blood borne illnesses
- Tonight's lunar eclipse
September 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 28
- Erysiphe and humans
- Regarding the Placebo Effect and Nocebo Effect
- Using disposable diapers as paper towels
- I don´t understand this picture..
- Were Giovanni Schiaparelli and Percival Lowell right?
- New species?
- How many cavities does the brain have?
- What happens to atmospheric particles lost to space?
- Twins can have different fathers?
- Similar appearance and mannerisms too
September 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2015 September 29
- Spider ID
- Extraterrestrial life
- More twin questions
- Synthesizing acetone from urine
- Discussing MyD88
- Does penicillin have sulfa