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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 2
- No electricity for you!
- Why Does the Annual Mortality Rate Rapidly Increase Between Ages 113 and 114?
- Earthing
- spina bifida case
- Big Bang of nothing
- How do antibodies kill antigens/pathogens?
- Weight increments on a digital scale
- Can a singularity spin?
- Unexplored Areas
- Unconscious mind
- Race and obesity
- Baby bird identification
- what physically changes between the ages of 18 to 22 -- fourth years look older than first years, but is it senescence?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 6
- Question about the plutonium in the curiosity rover
- Landing on Mars and coming back
- Updates To Darwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
- Thomson jumping ring
- Sci Fi Movie Another Earth
- Silviring Analogues for other Metals
- What makes Curiosity so special?
- How close would an alien species have to be to detect us if they had our current level of technology?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 8
- Snowflake uniqueness
- Mars Science Laboratory average speed
- What is happening to me?
- Heater and refrigerator conflict
- Why doesn't the Mars rover walk on legs?
- One way human tripulated mission to Mars
- Analog Alarm (Wrist) Watches
- What is this insect?
- Whiteboard that isn't
- E=mc2
- A new problem formed on my car at the auto dealer. Your thoughts?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 9
- Curiosity landing site ?= Pambotis Lacus?
- Rocket vaporizing launcher pad/tower
- is olive a citrus fruit?
- Can flavor compounds and oils dissolve in saturated syrup if they won't dissolve in water?
- How would all of Earth's electronics get shut down (as depicted on Revolution (TV series)?)
- Earth-Moon orbit
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 10
- Metal sorting
- Doyère, binomial authority for Milnesium tardigradum and so on
- Incremental cost of second Curiosity-like rover
- (UK) approx. inch and a half long insect with a long thin sting, wasp colours but not a wasp shape
- Year we would live on mars.
- Living longer with a transplanted heart
- Time manipulation
- Electromagnetic waves, please help me!
- psoriasis
- Beetles common to England seem to come in very specific sizes?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 16
- How are the life cycles of Mollusks and Insects alike?
- Loch Ness monster
- Does Neanderthal DNA show nature of sexual unions?
- what was there before the BIGBANG ?
- blueshift and redshift.
- war planes
- asenapine
- How long does it take to go from patent to commercialization?
- current
- magnet
- Orange lights, other colors of LED lights
- Cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 17
- what's the squiggly side group symbol stand for?
- ET contact book
- Which jobs require sharp vision?
- physics/5th Dimension
- Approximately how much mass does the Milky Way lose each day?
- Is an apple alive or dead when you eat it?
- Different magnets
- Invisibility
- Tinned pineapple poisoning?
- Spider identification
- Archery Accuracy
- Adrenaline rush
- Time Dilation Questions
- Microwave plastic ring
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 20
- Looking into the past
- The physics and etc. of Total Recall (the 2012 remake)
- Relationship between electricity and intelligence
- In megatons, what is the total estimated yield of the world's nuclear stockpile?
- absorption of vitamins
- Plutonium tetroxide
- Neuron Anatomy
- canon 650d, Magic Lantern
- Please add Vascepa (isosapent ethyl) to Wikipedia Encyclopedia
- maxwells inductance capacitance bridge
- What's the percent of NASA projects that get canceled before completion?
- Unknown snake in the Pantanal
- Cabbage and lettuce
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 28
- Symmetries of the Universe
- Was the flies in Autstalia tamed so that they mainly feed on plants but not trash?
- The resolution of reality
- Would entities exist without minds to distinguish them?
- If a body reverses direction, does it momentarily stop?
- Historical alternatives to Darwinism (AKA Darwinian evolution)?
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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2012 August 29
- Kepler-47
- Superheating and nucleation
- Mars Science Laboratory Flight Path
- professions
- General anaesthesia
- Carl Linnaeus Belived In The Fixity Of Species By Divine Creation And Died 31 Years Before Darwin Was Born. Why Then Does The Taxonomic System That Bears His Name Support Darwin's Theory Of Common
- How audible would it be to a human?
- Does 'Curiosity' have a microphone on board? if not, then why not?
- I get the advantages of sexual reproduction, but what are the advantages of having separate sexes?
- Telomeric fusion and human evolution
- Any acquired immunity to rubella when an infant gets it pre-vaccination?