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May 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 1

1. Changing the speed of light, when the medium is not a perfect vacuum.

May 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 3

1. Hum in headphone amplifier
2. How did the ancients deal with mold and mildew in ancient aqueduct systems?

May 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 4

1. Language and laugh

May 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 5

1. Coal merchant occupational diseases
2. Pendulum Motion

May 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 6

1. Why is tungsten so cheap?

May 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 7

1. Domestic appliances
2. Eagle's brow ridge

May 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 9

1. Washington Metro
2. Largest storm

May 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 10

1. Why is there meteorites from Mars on Earth bt none from Venus?
2. How exactly does the Law of Conservation of Mass apply to expansion?

May 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 11

1. Artificial gravity on Haven-1

May 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 12

1. Genus in Animalia with the most species.
2. Storm Shadow for Ukrainian Air Force

May 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 13

1. Life expectancy and DNA repair

May 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 14

1. Odd glasses effect

May 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 15

1. ToC to me
2. Parrot and kittens
3. living species most distanty related to another living species
4. Would this seltzer taste different?
5. Having a magnetic field without an electric field.
6. Juices industry.

May 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 16

1. Is there such a thing as a totally noiseless refrigerator?
2. Dual Perceptrons
3. Can a subatomic particle annihilate with antimatter particle that isn't its antiparticle?
4. Can energetic muons colliding with uranium 235

May 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 17

1. What would be cooler, under the sun, a wet box painted black or a wet box painted white?
2. Sinking cities

May 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 18

1. What are the approaches or methods of conventional medicine (not specialties, rather treatment approaches or practical methods)?
2. Why does astrology (not astronomy) kept persisting?

May 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 19

1. Moss growth and ant hills

May 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 20

1. Chimpanzee groups fight each other

May 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 21

1. Can moth wings heal?
2. Expert help needed for Downs cell
3. Recycling of gunpowder

May 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 22

1. Desk microphone
2. mp3 file on apple music
3. Octane rating
4. What has five leaves and looks like poison ivy?

May 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 23

1. Agatha Christie's fireman
2. Garden plants' lifespan ?
3. Nested virtual reality in virtual reality

May 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 24

1. Would an ocean of electrons be a superfluid?
2. Energy of particles in a collider.
3. Pest detection

May 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 25

1. Should I list every species in a genus?
2. Do particles in a linear particle accelerator lose speed/momentum for some reason?

May 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 26

1. The problem with gravity.
2. Can Vitamin K in say Spinach or Broccoli be destroyed
3. Journal auto-skim

May 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 27

1. Should a glass of red wine daily cause the human body to produce more endosteroids (natural steroid hormones from the adrenal gland)?
2. Are all types of whales endangered or close to being endangered?

May 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 28

1. Scientists and Flat-Earthers
2. Fictional portrayal of diving into a methane ocean

May 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 29

1. On the beach

May 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 30

1. Blackbody energy density

May 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 May 31

1. Copernicus Open Access Hub