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November 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 1

1. space objects swift motion
2. evolution of cancer cells
3. The absolute altitude record for a manned spacecraft
4. Reflection
5. Greatest and Least Surface gravity on inhabitable planet?
6. How Can the Most Distant Galaxy be 30 Billion ly away when the universe is only 13 Billion ly old?

November 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 2

1. Is it easy to separate individual voices from a crowd chatter?
2. Are Operators in physics always linear?
3. If energy is conserved, why do we run out of energy?

November 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 3

1. Nuclear radation concerns for Utah salt lakes
2. Reversing batteries in compartment saves the batteries from trickle charge depletion, why?
3. Great Flood of 1993
4. Male Body Purposely Permanently Completely (As In 100.00%) Stops Producing Sperm
5. Rubbing contact lenses
6. Mites or similar
7. River chutes
8. Why does milk make food taste less spicy?
9. Impact depth

November 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 4

1. Why blind army ants do not hunt at night?
2. gases and pressure
3. VY Canis Majoris
4. Empirical evidence for length contraction?
5. Drug use in the animal kingdom
6. Calculating impact depth for neutronium

November 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 5

1. Earth's total water?
2. John Wayne on the phone
3. Does any Anti-Histamine Nose spray exist on the market?

November 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 6

1. Why does ice do more damage than liquid water?
2. Mainstream theories of intelligence
3. Conversion of finances to binary
4. Confusing mental with physical illness
5. David Suzuki's recent warning about the Fukushima situation
6. cancer hair follicles and nails
7. Ashkenazi intelligence
8. Fact or fiction: is it possible to be germophobic without having OCD?
9. What's this object falling?
10. Charge a battery in the microwave

November 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 7

1. Close Encounters of Jupiter
2. Digital to analog signal

November 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 8

1. stillborn dog
2. Brownish spike-like object in my shoe
3. Physical contact in platonic friendships

November 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 9

1. What is the climate of Moose Factory, Canada?
2. Alloy Phase Diagrams?
3. NFPA 704: All three = 4?
4. Were there fat cavemen?
5. Cryonic suspension and damage from radionuclides
6. Mainstream scientist
7. Toll-like receptor signaling
8. Microbe versus Tumor Immune response
9. Objects above microwaves

November 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 10

1. Image quality: 16mm versus DVD/Netflix
2. Momentum vs kinetic energy
3. Why did lunar module dock with command module on the Apollo program
4. Correlation between intelligence and sensitivity to the cold?
5. medical condition. Brokers affasier
6. Occupational precautions regarding chemotherapy
7. Unidentified goose (Orange County, CA)
8. Chronic effects of nerve agent exposure - why?

November 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 11

1. Plastic cracking due to rapid temperature change
2. Official Specs from Nissan (I don't have a Chilton book)
3. Who's eating our high-energy neutrinos?
4. Storm surge timing

November 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 12

1. Softening Hair with Electricity
2. Wind force as concrete design factor
3. Question about forces and slopes
4. How did addictive behaviors and procrastination evolve in families?
5. Non-economic meaning of "exchange rate"?
6. Question about quasi- spacetime?

November 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 13

1. Messages artifically coded into DNA?
2. Volcanism (Earth versus Mars)
3. Is it theoretically possible for machines/vehicles to float like they do in sci-fi stories?
4. Aqueous cream as a moisturiser?

November 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 14

1. Type of hearing loss with anger at loud sounds
2. Ducks adopt unrelated chicks?
3. Earthling Phone Home!
4. Duel Electric Meter for saving money?
5. Rotor in a cylinder

November 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 15

1. Using Computers in Space
2. Why m.s-1 instead of m/s?
3. Is there a scientific explanation as to why gay kids are bullied?
4. Capillary electrophoresis
5. Ethology and Behavioral ecology

November 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 16

1. Fear of abortion
2. spaceship water shielding
3. Lecithin
4. Hot water improving cleaning ability
5. Can I equate "m" from the following two equations?

November 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 17

1. Biting your tongue
2. Novel electric unicycle design
3. Dynamo lights become ever brighter with increasing speed?
4. Blood glucose result discrepancy
5. science (magnification in parallel and series circuits)
6. Why “g = GM/d^2” prevail over the higher derivatives of position w.r.t time?

November 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 18

1. Climate of Korea
2. Naming Be
   ₆N
   ₄, additively
3. Please help, Heat transfer coefficient of the external fluid flowing steadily over a horizontal plate
4. How to make adult stem cells totipotent?
5. physics gravittation
6. direction of Jupiter spot rotation
7. Enforced neoteny

November 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 19

1. Tea for sore throat
2. Could a dog sense radon or the the effects of radon in a basement?
3. "Cyclone Cleopatra"
4. 3D printed stainless steel?
5. Tank duel revisited

November 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 20

1. Unsure how to calculate a percentage of power to create a solution
2. halting global warming?
3. Effects of masturbation on sperm count.
4. Why doesn't water vapor always condense in water droplets?
5. Radioactivity of technetium and promethium
6. Strange columns

November 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 21

1. Problems developing life forms on planets around orange and red dwarf main sequence stars
2. Dreamliner takeoff distance
3. Rollerball ink splodges
4. artificial sweeteners
5. Phlegm bacteriotherapy and exotic bacteria
6. Black colors on white people?

November 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 22

1. Big Xbox is watching you?
2. Snakebite
3. Power required for hovering
4. fluid mechanics
5. For how many percents stress can raise the glucose in the blood?
6. Projectile penetration
7. Yet another room temperature superconductor prediction notable?

November 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 23

1. Genetically engineering hair color and eye color
2. Redshift experiments
3. Structural elements
4. How (non-rad) hard would it be to turn every cellphone into a radiation detector?
5. Oil for plastics

November 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 24

1. DNA to RNA to protein synthesis
2. Kirchhoff's first law of spectroscopy
3. Main Battle Tank
4. Gluten and Salt
5. Integration of body temperature signals
6. Snake bite article
7. Permeability of rocks in the soda canyon

November 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 25

1. Identifying dinosaur species from tiny bone fragment
2. Electrochemistry question
3. Electrolysis
4. Spectroscopic film ?
5. Social inhibition of urination
6. Platinum Daniell cell
7. Liquids at zero pressure
8. Entirely sterile rooms
9. Engineering definition

November 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 26

1. Must an element's pth ionization energy be greater than its qth ionization energy if p>q?
2. Real life transformer
3. Possibility of chromatophore bacteria using complex pigmentation for crypsis
4. Acid rusted tools

November 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 27

1. Correct approach to deriving the shell theorem?
2. Historical humans and race
3. How to produce magnesium carbonate?
4. Adding nitrogen gas to chemical bottle to protect from moisture in the air
5. Penguins near the South Pole
6. Old style mechanical railway signal boxes
7. Suicide
8. Is it a fact that ghosts are/aren't real?
9. Eating indigestible foods: what's the point?
10. Killing animals with carbon dioxide

November 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 29

1. Polar opposites on the globe
2. Dreams
3. I must understand in simple words
4. Heaven's Gate cult
5. Mechanisms of gene regulation
6. Chargers and mobile phone
7. The science of bike puncture repair kits
8. CCHR

November 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2013 November 30

1. Density Matrix
2. Bird ID
3. Waste products
4. FOOD DIGESTION
5. Phase-Change Material
6. Cold effect on stomach
7. Swimming in water in space
8. Why do newborn chickens have yellow plumage?