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May 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 1
- Are good looks natural or a product of good care?
- The stroke of midnight
- Differential pitch perception?
- Name this garden flower?
- Equations of motion for position/momentum uncertainty
- Experiments related to the digestive system
- Electricity generation and conservation of energy
- Measuring noise levels
- root root
- Atmospheric pressure vs sea level
- Physics of the force carriers
May 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 2
- Visions of the technological future in 1999
- Civilization after peak oil
- gravity field of crab nebula
- High acidic nature of Pepsi and Coca-Cola
- Software for arranging scientific diagrams?
- genetic engineering question
- Imersion in hot water
- Smells of chemical weapons
- Foreign Health Patients In America
May 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 3
- When did the stratosphere form?
- Quantum of space
- chemistry
- chemistry
- Something in a dog's ear
- Water testing in New York City
- earth rotation question
- shrimp genetics
- pressure vs temperature of water in a closed system
- Noiseless helicopters
- Is 3-bromopyruvate toxic in humans? What is the status of human clinical trials?
May 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 4
- Suggestions: seemingly complex process which is simple.
- how did the swiss alps form
- 2001-type centrifugal spacecraft - are they non-starters?
- Are we perpetuating an error on degrees proof?
- Scent glands in cattle
- Specific heat capacity (Cp) for a Ni/α-Al2O catalyst
- Can anyone identify what kind of gemstone this is?
- High sodium diet protects against heart disease?
May 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 5
- Children Raised Alongside Dogs
- Groundhogs Immune to Poison Ivy?
- High-temperature superconductors
- Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and Leprosy
- Is this complete rubbish: "Wind turbines fan the flames of moorland fires"?
- Imagine a hole drilled completely through Earth...
- Imagine a hole drilled completely through Earth, question 2
- what are the chances there could be "French Fries Zero"?
- Suspension bridge small cables
- Is that possible?
- Were each of the twelve men who walked on the moon first-born sons?
- three-point adhesion
- Mechanical processes and manufacturing technology
May 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 6
- Trash on the moon
- some disease without symptoms
- DNA-Identification
- Unkown Bird
- astronomy question
- Current state of photovoltaics in Europe and the world
- Metal Gear
- worker ants
- Relativity vs quantum mechanics
May 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 7
- Ismail Ibn Sharif
- Inch of water
- I need to clean a disgusting sink: question about bleach and ammonia...
- Black body radiation question
- What species is this frog?
- Laser as a weapon
- If bin Laden had a medical need for dialysis
- Inactive ingredients in medicines
- about tunnelng effect
- Genetic bottleneck due to Great Famine of 1315-1317?
- Are there any known substances that are harder than diamond?
- Frame Dragging/Conservation of energy/General Relativity
May 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 8
- Do spherical mirrors produce a sphere inversion?
- Where to obtain a HyperSim card?
- Cost of panels per square mile, and how many needed to power Earth?
- where to get zsm 5 catalyst in india for my chemistry projectWickyjazz (talk) 07:41, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
- Blood test for CJD and donating blood/plasma
- What other bodily components of mine would I be allowed to give for $?
- What kind of insect is this?
- Bicycles (and other things) remaining upright
- Building the Duomo di Milano today.
- Finding bin Laden
- pain and pressure
May 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 9
- R constant
- Immunology: Neutralization technique
- Colour of plants.
- black holes sizes
- how electric shock causes death?
- Pulling animals by the tail
- Do plants die of old age?
- Fertilizer
- Charles' Law gives different results for different temperature systems?
May 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 10
- Blackhole Theory
- Ninth Planet
- LHC
- planetesimals
- Children sweat less than adults?
- The scale of temperature in water
- Strength of steel for making a table
- Ethnic-specific biological weapons
- bending of space and time using lasers
May 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 11
- Metronomes
- Gas in the age of zombies
- Young Earth?
- Newborns are defenseless
- Recharging a laptop from a square wave inverter
- Vasopressin not used as a uterine stimulant?
- Wine and Vinegar
- Keeping milk from freezing: How much vodka needed?
- Mass of a heated object
- what does an atom look like?
- forms
- transformer
- dipole movement
- A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)
- Why does a dropped object land directly below where it is dropped?
May 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 12
- Eye of a hurricane question
- Hospital planning
- Tips on building an LCD
- Spy plane
- mass of an atom in kinetic collisions
- Identifying distant sources of light
- 2011 Mississippi River floods
May 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 13
- What is the role of the autonomic nervous system in uterine contraction?
- Spider path
- Nephrotic syndrome in children
- Waste of Mir Deorbiting
- Bonding problem
- Sodium silicate
- Cognitive bias relating to extrapolating from initial conditions
- BIrds & Monarch butterflies.
- Multiverses beginnings
- Help identifying plant
May 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 14
- Increase voltage from batteries
- Leatherman
- Infinity of infinite dimensional space
- Electrons
- Colour blindness
- A video series like Zimbardo's "Discovering psychology" (1990)
- Additional time
- Chemistry
- XLR specs
- Colourful butterflys
- What's the largest object that can undergo diffraction?
May 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 15
- the brain's Physical quantity of dwarfs and the fact they are smart just as any other human
- are there any scientifically proven FOODS there a long-term eating of them could improveenhance the human visioneye-sight system?...
- Ice age Australasian straits
- UL or other agency approval or certification
- Public structures have to be approved by a Professional Engineer??
- Minimum thread engagements
- interference reason
- Sailing stones
- graph in excel
- DARAPRIM COMPOUND TAB. quinine dihydrochloride
- Tomatoes
- Skullology or Skull-Osteology or what? - how should i say "skullology" in scientific terminology?
May 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 16
- Waterford Nuclear Generating Station
- being awake like a zombie
- Plant survival
- When do chlorine in a solution evaporate?
- Space shuttle booster rockets
- How long does it take to test DNA?
- Eye color changing with mood.
- titration endpoint
- disease detection by dogs
- Aberration
- Cervical spondylosis/hypertrophy, neural foraminal stenosis - parts of the body affected
- Nonlethal weapons for use on large animals
May 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 17
- How old do you have to be a nurse in Japan?
- Can anyone recommend any books about Gynoid which are female robots with a human appearance.
- fractional volume of an extraction solvent
- weaver bird nests
- allosteric enzyme kinetics
- Evolution of spider's web glands
- Non-organic material decomposition
May 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 18
- Mouth Anatomy
- Orion Molecular Cloud Complex
- HAHO jumps and radar
- Does evaporative cooling cause air to become lighter or heavier?
- Vision & Fear
- Is the plane that separates the bonding and anti-bonding region in two H atoms a hyperboloid of two sheets
- What is a diathermic substance?
- Do sound waves tell us anything about how the microscopic interactions between the surfaces are?
- East-Prinovozemelsky field and the ice pack
- Most developed automatic driving car in the market
- What can a man do against a Straight-Sunken scar on the chin?...
- How do Helix pomatia look when they are young?
May 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 19
- DOMINANT and RECESSIVE
- Most efficient way to convert heat to electricity
- Quantitative Analysis and Sex offender registration
- Speed of cough
- Warm-blooded versus cold-blooded
- Sexual reproduction in plants
- Finding article that cite a particular paper
May 20[edit]
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May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 21
- Rat factoid I heard on TV the other day...
- Morganza spillway absorption and flow
- Gaseous Ions
- Phosphorus pentafluoride
- Black semiconductor
- Wheatstone Bridge - infinite current between legs of circuit?
- Taste of seafood
May 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 22
- Where does it go?
- Prandtl Number
- Nerve plexuses in G.I.T. (from mouth till anus)
- THANK ..................................... K YOU
- Sodastream fuel
- Australian wildlife
- Morse taper
- Great Exhibition Mast
- Titanium Dioxide in fat-free half & half?
May 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 23
May 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 24
- Ambidexterity
- Case study!
- Pro-neuro-genesis > proven-to-be-as-such FOODS?
- Land bridge between Asia and North America since...?
- Today is a great day for science
- Speed of sound problem.
- Why does black cherry sparkling water spew all over the place but not other flavors?
- Ancient Greeks
- Carotene acetate
- Umbilical cord
- Radioactive Elements
May 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 25
- Earth's gravity and humans
- Psychoanalysis and Schizophrenia
- Dual-brain theory & ambidexterity
- I have 3 questions about the :Narwhal?
- Carbonmonixide`s reaction with water
- Size of carbonate and nitrate ion
- Non-cassein cheese
- Red blood cells and erythropoietin in early stage renal artery stenosis
- The electron is not perfectly round?
- Could I be allergic to something in the milk, and not the milk itself?
- Solar rotation. Why exactly does the sun's equatorial region rotate faster?
May 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 26
- dangling inchworms
- Why can't (don't?) we mass produce space probes?
- Black hole-like phenomena from other forces?
- Star colors in M13
- Senior Analyst - qu'est-ce que c'est?
- Riding out storms in bathtubs
May 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 27
- Dialyses machines!
- PH Rate?
- Decay energy
- Climate change
- dsp3 and d2sp3 hybridisations
- Dipole moment of BF3
- HgCl2
- Speed of radio waves through the earth compared to light in fiber optic cable on the surface
- Distinguishing between whole milk and two-percent milk
- Muscles in gastrointestinal tract
- Where is the best place to go Whale watching for Narwhals?
- Why is Biology a qualitative science?
May 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 28
- Tornadoes and bodies
- Would perfect cell replication lead to immortality?
- VLT (Very Large Telescope) HD Timelapse Footage
- "Wet" disposal of acetone peroxide. Also, intercepting suicide bombers
- dsp3 and d2sp3 hybridisations
- impact induced colour change in clay
- pf plants
- Is this 100% whole wheat bread?
- Nintendo 3DS
May 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 29
- What velocity in terms of c (light speed) needed to cause fusion in deuterium - tritium fusion?
- low resolution image of Lincoln
- MP3 Player, Computer Circuit integration
- TONSILS
- 3.5 metre Under keel clearance for the Malacca straits passage for ships
- I have some questions about whales and sharks
- Physics of Liquids and Friction
May 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2011 May 30
- Underwater vehicles
- combination of solar wind
- Brains of superorganisms
- Any garden flower with leaves that look like a thistle?
- Why is quantum mechanics so packed with relativistic corrections?
- how to say "brain" (brain of the skull) in greek latin? and should we say BRAINOLOGY?
- Skeletal System ..