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May 1[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 1
- Entangled Qubits as Polarized Light
- Size of the cat's eye nebula
- Air in submerged car
- What does this mean? Gravitational waves should penetrate regions of space that electromagnetic waves cannot.
- Amputating limbs of quadriplegics
- wasp
May 2[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 2
- Meditation and Sleep
- White Blood Cells & infection
- pre-antibiotic era
- free space in atoms
- Do children of people with speech impediments learn the speech impediment?
- attractive force from virtual particles
- bromocresol gren
- Lifting buoyant things with just a few drops of water
May 3[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 3
- Who would and wouldn't want to live forever
- Programmed death
- Very laid back Bluebottles, how to distinguish true C. vomitoria?
May 4[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 4
- All-axial or all-equatorial?
- How fast it takes for Venus to lose its atmopshere
- Toxicity of lead anti-radiation materials
- Boiling water
- Hollywood etymology
- 2 questions about a chemical solution
- Lions not on the Gulf of Guinea?
May 5[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 5
- Dimensions of inflation
- Article about rain
- DVD player
- Is Planetary Resources making a space VLBI telescope array?
- Over-active Immune System
- Pronunciation of vitamin?
- Temporary change in sexual orientation
- Neutrons
- pearsons r and F TEST
May 6[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 6
- Chemical smells
- Where does the vitamin D in polar regions come from?
- Oil near the Great Lakes
- entanglement Logic
- What percentage of human zygotes end up dying in the womb?
- Virtual work
- Is it safe to keep batteries in a tin can?
- Perchlorate ion electronic structure
- dripping under sink
- Fractional degrees of freedom
- Metro lines and building
May 7[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 7
- Most specific term for the misleading sensation I am feeling
- how nuclear radiations caused pancytopenia?
- Quantum Mechanics/Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
- adding angular momenta in quantum mechanics (QM)
- Generic lifts
May 8[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 8
- Speed of Light and Black Holes
- How harmful are the expected failure modes of London subway congestion?
- Putrescine
- Real-life applications of Pokéballs
- Newly discovered pathogen in Roundup Ready crops
- Light bulbs
- How long do adult flies live ?
May 9[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 9
- "Center for Innovation, Technology and Testing"
- Crude oil, 'condensate'
- Historical rate of beta decay?
- free space in atoms 2
- Maltose vs Lactose
- In so-called "99% ethanol", is this 99% by concentration or mass? --150.203.114.37 (talk) 23:47, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
May 10[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 10
- Why are salad shrimps so cheap?
- Measuring human tasked energy consumption with calorimetry
- Nutrients for human brain tissue culture
- Two diagonal rings, one touching the other at just one point and spinning
- Master of Public Health
- Lava tornado
May 11[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 11
- before penicillin
- Minimizing the effects of aging on skin
- Is Element Zero In Mass Effect Possible
- is the file autorun.inf executable by itself?
- What's the term for one way only traffic lane design?
- WTC
- Transitional relativity ?
- Digging to Vesta's iron core
- Cobra Mist
- Eating pearls
May 12[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 12
- Rate data for dissociation & recombination reactions
- Lift controls
- What do these presumably space related acronyms mean?
- Herschel and life on the Moon, etc
May 13[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 13
- While I know that it's a myth that you can stop a moving car...
- Rusting after burning
- Autism
- 1 year.
- Why is CO not the anhydride of formic acid?
- Are there any traits (genetic traits) that are only inherited from one parent?(mom or dad)
- Greenland as three islands
- The Nature of Jupiter's Metallic Hydrogen Interior
- Stronger superacids than fluoroantimonic acid
- Steel laptop and electroshock
- Promiscuity and inbreeding
- Lead poisoning and weight gain
- thd
- How does myopia work?
- what is cally disease
May 14[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 14
- Why is KCN basic but not KNO3?
- Are the injuries sustained by Tony Stark at all possible?
- Weight loss question
- Thermodynamics of nuclear reactions
- Help identifying swallowtail
- Help Identifying another swallow tail
- Is it possible (however unlikely) for quantum fluctuations to violate conservation of energy?
- women
- Will Mira B explode?
- glass in soil
May 15[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 15
- Surfactants
- Proper Dimensions for Mortality Rates
- how much farther does a giraffe see
- Magnetic moment of a neutron
- Lemonade (Citrus limon × reticulata)
- Help identifying moths
- relationship between telomere length and cancer risk
- Grasshopper in Zion National Park
May 16[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 16
- Non-ethanol effects of alcoholic beverages
- Ripping someone a new one
- List of Self Limiting diseases?
- red giant's maximum diameter
- An inquiry into the nature of solenoids
- Orbital Chainsaw
- Compatibility (mechanics)
- Whether I saw the moon.
- Controversy on Gravitational Singularities
- Beryllium barrier
- Irish Great whites
- Urgent Antihistamine Question
- Antihistamine and general drug dosage question
May 17[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 17
- What is the formal definition of a chromosome, or is there one?
- Metal loses its magnetic properties when in a liquid state?
- Space radiation
- Mario Rabinowitz
- Cooperative lightning? Intelligent grass?
- Where can drugs get in your body? What barriers are there?
May 18[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 18
- sun become a red giant 5 or 7.5 billion years?
- Eclipse question
- Phd stipend life sciences
- What's the most likely problem with my tire inflator/spotlight?
- about sodium silicate
- Gibbs free energy
- Zeta potential
- Flat universe have zero total energy?
- Mootractor
May 19[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 19
- Eye movement limit
- Clomethiazole
- Proton-Proton Chain Reaction
- Equilibrium in analytical mechanics
- Plastic cities
- Species identification
- Unidentified houseplant
- Geiger tube
- Do microwave ovens use less energy than stoves?
- Specific entropy
- Why isn't dinitrogen toxic?
- Dasyuromorphia and carnivores
- Problems with xenon tetroxide xenate formulas
May 20[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 20
- Locomotives
- Geiger tube continuation
- Domestic Heat Pump connections
- Hexahydrogen sulfide
- Ingredients of paint primer?
- Electricity of x cm³ of water at y m
- State of radon related to radioactivity?
- Ultra High power mechanical HVDC-breakers?
- Planetary Resources, Inc.
- electric car batteries
- Are these "proper" moobs?
- Wood as an electric conductor
- Asthma meds for otherwise healthy people
May 21[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 21
- Oxidation state trend
- Could obesity be caused by a lack of magnesium in the diet?
- Cartography - resolution?
- steam engine plans
- Purple lightning
- Comparing climate between places in Australia & North America
- Diversity of sexuality
- Odd notation in genetics (greater than symbol?)
May 22[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 22
- Rotating in space
- Gravitational time dilation at the centre of a large mass
- Physics: Aerodynamics of Pigeon Wing.
- "Whoa!" moments
- Fun examples of body parts that go on living
- F-22 Raptor's deadly toxic stealth goo
- Quick weather question
- do most mainstream water-resistant sunscreens have dangerous ingredients?
- Gravitational Blueshift Equation
May 23[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 23
- Diversity of sexuality #2
- Could plants extract metabolic energy from wind?
- Science Project
- Where's the rule about how high model rockets can go in the US
- Trebuchet design.
- Odd smell after a hailstorm
- SELF CHARGING ELECTRICAL CAR
- Oestrogen injections for sociopaths
- Is the psi function real?
May 24[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 24
- Calories in coffee
- Super Heros and capes
- Geology of DRC
- Taxonomical names
- What class is a fox?
- Household uses for reactions
- Why does LASIK work?
- Solar flares and radioactive decay
- Where cometh the meme about heorin being less adictive than tobacco?
May 25[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 25
- Two questions
- What accounts for temperature increase at night in a modern home?
- Orange Plasma on ICP-AES
- Hand clap
- Jupiter Rise?
- Sunny weather and arthritis
- Border control discovering smuggling inside the body
May 26[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 26
May 27[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 27
- Driving speeds and fuel efficiency
- Why are there no albino horses?
- How often should sausages be turned on the BBQ?
- Never before seen color
- SleePology
- Light deflection by gravity
- Intestinal aganglionosis
- String theory
- Poynting vector about a charge moving at constant velocity.
- Why would being low on freon cause ice to build up around the AC unit's pipes inside?
- Sulfur nitrides and nitrogen oxides
- Catenane structural formula
- "Sharp diagnosis"
May 28[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 28
- Separating catenane links
- Comparing Heat Conductivities
- Blind Spot in space travel
- Algae on the Moon?
- "New form of LSD"
May 29[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 29
- Central Sleep Apnea theory contested
- Low frequency sound waves
- Refraction and entantiomers
- What evidence is there that DNA has a double helical structure in vivo?
- non-determinism and causality
- What is the nature of life
- How does the pressure-temperature diagram for refrigeration look like?
- Physics/Math Theory ... Flat Flexible Object ... Volume Mass Force
- Making Ammonium sulfate
- What kind of latch ?
- Color does not actually exists?
- Good or bad edit?
May 30[edit]
Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 May 30
- Calories consumed during periods of intense activity
- Goethian Optics
- 2867 Šteins — common-noun nomenclature
- Polar oceanic climate?
- Birds that humans can ride?
- Woken up during non-REM sleep, i feel tired, why?, prevention?
- How to get hydrogen from electrolysis into a balloon?
- Moon tilting