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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 1

1. Abortion pill, surgical abortion, and natural abortifacients
2. Sunlight amplification by glasses
3. Dinosaur skeletons
4. Anti-anthropogenic return to our natural greenhouse

May 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 2

1. In what stage the muscle cell should get the stimulus?
2. Is the Lepton Number of the Universe a large negative value?
3. Air changes per hour
4. Can those very big square batteries for flashlights leak if stored for years?

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 3

1. program or website to identify stars/constellations?
2. Leaned over mountain peaks
3. Free fall mechanics

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 4

1. Complete analgesia
2. Need help identifying species of waterfowl
3. Is the finger in dam short story scientifically possible?

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 5

1. Is there a way to connect a headset (heaphones and microphone) to a fax machine?

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 6

1. Unknown pet
2. Yesterday was National Astronaut Day
3. Could a DC device be 'agnostic' regarding the polarity of the current it receives?
4. Abies canadensis?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 7

1. Harbor Seal colors
2. Prostate and pancreas
3. Space launch

May 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 8

1. Is this true?
2. What are the widest subway cars ever in service?

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 9

1. Identifying marine invertebrates
2. syzigium cumini.

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 10

1. Atropisomerism

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 11

1. Extreme points
2. canned corned beef
3. Why doesn't a monopropeller cause an airplane to roll?
4. Ice age temperature

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 12

1. Enthalpy of Reaction for Ethylene and Water
2. The Bill
3. Condoms failing despite perfect use
4. Bird

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 13

1. What do these symbols mean?

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 14

1. Route of administration of aspirin
2. Does monoamine oxidase inhibitors not change the level of acetylcholine?
3. Definition of protein complex
4. What sets the northern limit of spring-ripening barley of the Passover-postponement rule phenotype?

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 15

1. Space launch, part 2
2. Finding off-target cleavage sites of Cas9 by dCas9-ChIP: biased technique?
3. Half-cell basics review
4. Supernova is loud

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 16

1. What isomer is this

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 17

1. Leaving group vs Nucleophile
2. What Does Spironolactone have to do with Chronic heart failure that other diuretics doesn't have?
3. STO cells; what does STO stand for?
4. Joseph-Louis Lagrange
5. Can I say that every allergy is autoimmune disease?
6. Yanny or Laurel

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 19

1. What could a human notice if his antipodal hemisphere instantly disappeared?
2. What to call it?
3. How do milk and eggs whilte function as anti intoxication?
4. Quantum (and classical!) speed limits

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 20

1. Organic Mechanism Steps
2. What is sodium nucleotide?
3. Brain wiring

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 21

1. Entamoeba coli
2. Hands are always cold
3. Pressurized water reactor and boiling water reactor fuel pin

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 22

1. Types of wave through wall
2. VOR/DME approaches
3. turmeric with black pepper vs crcumin with piperine
4. Fat

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 23

1. Mass spectrometry
2. What's the strongly orange-colored fungus that grows in the Mid Atlantic states?
3. Apollo reentry and "equivalent power" for the heatshield?
4. What makes decibels of whistles higher?
5. Weird pond creature

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 25

1. Laurel-Yanny followup
2. Car engine = kW/hp calculation
3. Compressing the H and O of one liter of water
4. Quantum spin
5. What makes a ruminant's milk more dangerous than human breastmilk that it needs to be pasteurized before consumption?
6. What does it mean “patient K”?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 26

1. Semi-automatic Pistols

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 27

1. Sunset
2. worth putting candles in greenhouse?
3. What is the actual English name for scientific name "Cucumis melo var. chate"?
4. Evolution of brain image processing

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 29

1. Chemistry: Glass joint compatibility
2. Gas layer seperation
3. E-nicotine vs. Devil's Tobacco - which is less dangerous?

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 30

1. Date of "power-is-over" ?
2. How important is sleep for being able to concentrate well?
3. When would today's temperature in Kelvin be relevant?

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 May 31

1. Laurel-Yanni, again