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February 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 1

1. Breached levee near town
2. "Sleeping funny" and sore neck
3. What is encoded?
4. GLUT-4
5. Whiskey warehouses
6. Why is air conditioning considered a luxury but heating is considered a necessity?
7. White tube like things in poor quality diced beef.

February 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 2

1. Cutting or bending Electronic paper displays

February 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 3

1. Movement of the North Ecliptic Pole
2. Basic physics problem
3. Accelerating around a curve in a car
4. Haber process clarification
5. mosquito
6. Meiosis occurs in all our cells of the body or just in the sexual cells?
7. When someone is hearing voices, whythese tend to be destructive?
8. How much does time vary from one day to the next for sunrise and sunset?
9. What is the formula for conversion of testosterone nmol/L to testosterone ng/dL?
10. List of quad style Drones
11. In case of atrial fibrillation does a part of the atrial pulses passes to the ventricles?
12. PEG-PVA excipient ("binder" et al. for Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients primarily for oral route preparations) article in sorry stub state
13. "Sexual cells are cells which able to reproduce a new generation."

February 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 5

1. When the freezer or refrigerator breaks, what do I do with food in it?
2. Crane Collapses in Lower Manhattan, Killing at Least One Person

February 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 6

1. List of people who have walked on the Moon
2. Can any problem be broken down into easy to understand parts?

February 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 7

1. Man with no brain
2. What is the meaning of the word "lead" in context of ECG?
3. Do all the muscles of the body have origin and insertion?
4. In genetics, sex can be dominant?
5. Date of official information on the name of element 113
6. Odors emitted by the Feces and Urine of Mammals and Birds
7. Oil drilling -- env. impact
8. Oil drilling, part 2
9. Near earth approach of 2013 TX68 in March 2016
10. sources of oxidants in natural shale gas reservoirs
11. Are all stars main sequence stars at some point in their life-cycle?
12. are there compounds which are poorly soluble in aliphatic hydrocarbons (e.g. cyclohexane) but dissolve well in aromatic ones (like benzene or toluene)?
13. Really how important is fruit?

February 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 8

1. marshy gas from mines
2. Formula for lens
3. Possible to change taste buds in adulthood?
4. Falling from a building
5. Is it best for a man/woman to see a male/female psychiatrist respectively?
6. cramps or a "charley horse" after orgasm
7. Jump cushion
8. How many defecators?
9. Perspective machines
10. Technology for the disabled
11. Accelerating a particle with light
12. Immunity vs resistance

February 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 9

1. Synthetic turquoise
2. Weight of paper
3. Widely distributed species
4. The extinction of sandboxes
5. Starkiller Base superweapon

February 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 10

1. io photographs
2. hops as a preservative
3. Unknown bird
4. water temperature and baby bath
5. What does the X and Y (of chromosomes) stand for?
6. Does DEMKO approve Schuko (CEE 7/7) plugs?
7. Climate averages of Bacău
8. For how long bacteria and viruses can live outside of the body (not in laboratory conditions)?
9. Does chlorine destroy viruses like it does to bacteria?
10. What is the physiological reason for inappetence?

February 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 11

1. Is it normal to never get angry?
2. Making a slushie without sugar
3. The mask should defend on the sick or from the sick?
4. Why do doctors give saline to the patient instead of water?

February 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 12

1. Magnetic hovering spheres
2. Any disadvantage of graphite graphene batteries?
3. Elemental composition and electrons in a white dwarf star, etc
4. Energy from black holes merging

February 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 13

1. under what conditions will a Grignard or sodium hydroxide polymerize an epoxide
2. Are PUFAs in cooking oils harmful?
3. cabin pressure for private jets
4. Dissolving Low-density polyethylene
5. Damaging effects of gravitational waves
6. Nutrients needed by cuttings in water, specifically Geraniums
7. PDF Beiträge zur Araneologie (Beitr. Araneol.), vol. 2: Fossil spiders in Dominican amber?

February 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 14

1. Teaspoons vs mL
2. Fuel vs oxidizer on Falcon 9
3. Killing yourself on valentines day
4. Urine processing in the ISS
5. How was the distance to the source of gravitational waves measured?
6. Ingredients in drugs
7. Did people in the dark ages know that the world had gone to shit?
8. Spectral response of cones and rods
9. Identification of a spider from Sydney

February 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 15

1. Nothing after 'clay effect' ? or we found the world's limit?
2. Mud in San Francisco Bay
3. Number of people killed in Dresden
4. Sine, sine, everywhere a sine
5. Earth science
6. Radio on smartphones
7. Densitometry: how to determine the base of curves (e.g. in ImageJ)
8. Gravitational waves

February 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 16

1. Lipophilic substances
2. People shutting down ("dying") and then starting up again ("coming back to life")
3. Quantitative analysis of gases producing odors in feces of humans, animals and birds
4. STI Testing
5. What sciences fields, besides psychiatry, have an "anti-" version of it?

February 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 17

1. Organ donor transport
2. Difference between the labor and technology
3. Drainage
4. Series

February 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 18

1. Wind in the Willows, is it?
2. How does it happen ?
3. Difference between FMVSS (U.S. and Canada) and UNECE (rest of the world) car regulations
4. Levitation
5. Under water mining
6. Powering Machines
7. Biomedical engineering and mental health
8. How can he possibly father a child?

February 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 19

1. Vehicle making software sought; open and or non-open source
2. Cheap osmium
3. What percent of a normal battleship is hollow?
4. Work

February 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 20

1. Would algae be a vegetable?
2. What is the reason the inner part of the cell membrane is hydrophobic?

February 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 21

1. Can identify this dog breed ?
2. Brain limit
3. Example for Calculus of Variations Usage
4. Withstanding black hole gravitation

February 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 22

1. Lights off the Falklands
2. Did someone just 'prove' Bohmian mechanics?
3. Transcription enzyme
4. Water purification
5. Danger of asbestos after constructing the building, and before demolishing it
6. How does the operator get inside the crane ?

February 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 23

1. Updates on Desert Varnish?
2. Rorschach's mask

February 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 24

1. How does smoking affect cognitive abilities?
2. Flower from a film poster
3. How do epidemiologists track down the source of a sexually transmitted disease if clinics have anonymous testing?
4. How does glucagon avoid peristaltic?
5. Distinguishing Human Blood from Pig Blood by taste/other easy characteristics...
6. Is there a source for the number of the types cells organalles in human cell?
7. Is there any nervous system in the heart?
8. Koala is a marsupial

February 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 25

1. Where does the air go on a hot day?
2. What does a photon of visible light look like before you see it?

February 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 26

1. On the definition of repolarization
2. high fever (104F) from an influenza infection triggering "drunkenness" (delirium), psychosis and suicidal thoughts
3. Launch windows for Mars landers
4. Does "action potential" is the elctrical systole?
5. Term sought

February 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 27

1. Rietdijk–Putnam argument
2. Names of newly discovered taxa
3. Science papers with photographs of the authors on the first page

February 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 28

1. Gigameters
2. Pregnant pilot
3. If you make an organolithium reagent by reacting lithium metal with alkyl halide, wouldn't the generated organolithium reagent also react with the original alkyl halide?
4. Why do I don't find an article about endocrine cell - on Wiki?
5. Evaporation
6. Growing
7. Is there an "app" for signaling when something in the freezer starts freezing?

February 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2016 February 29

1. My smartphone lens coating is half gone. Should I scratch off the rest for symmetry?
2. Firedamp
3. Did convection in households gas and electric stoves are been use a same scheme?
4. What does it mean negative and positive electrode?
5. Why do my glass lenses get foggy but my eyes do not?
6. Antifungal antibiotic
7. Dennis Miller, Trey Parker, global warming