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= June 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 1

1. Gas mask training
2. This is about a gene named "cerebum", right?
3. Gecko's foothold
4. Animal species: Recently and unintentionally introduced and now protected/endangered

= June 2 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 2

1. Can drones "shell" a target ?
2. Terminology: "Payload" in plasmid
3. Larsen Ice shelf
4. Is it indeed forbidden to clean a rabies wound with alcohol?
5. Cooking Climate Consensus Data: “97% of Scientists Affirm AGW" Debunked
6. If beans were stuffed up one's nose, then will there be brain injury or choking?
7. Asteroids and dwarf planets graphics and animations
8. Distributions of asteroids into three types

= June 3 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 3

1. 7-9 hours of sleep
2. Not chewing food
3. Sump pump versus expandable hose
4. Dancing Black Holes
5. X-ray image

= June 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 4

1. Electra 10-E
2. Svalbard Global Seed Vault and Permafrost melting
3. Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 6-3 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/14-ff4130dc56.jpg JPG]
4. Suicidal ideation
5. How do you solve part A?
6. Do animals know that mating leads to procreation
7. FIV+ cats
8. Are free-moving pets able to recognize the litter box the same way humans can recognize a toilet?

= June 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 5

1. Cat vs. Empire State Building
2. Proteins that do their function at extremely low quantities
3. What kind of camera lets you watch the photo appear?
4. Interaction of infectious diseases and trauma

= June 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 6

1. Do fresh mozzerella, paneer, and cottage cheese all really use the same process?
2. How fast do the inner electrons go in gold atoms, relativity
3. What makes a cell "alive" as opposed to being a clump of organic molecules?
4. Quantum coin toss
5. Predation vs cannibalism

= June 7 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 7

1. 21st century inventions
2. Yawning
3. Calcium leaching - dietary risk
4. Cambrian Explosion and the black holes.
5. Original meaning of "corn" in corn flakes?
6. 'Fold' in motorcycle helmets
7. How fast could a human swim in an infinite universe made of STP air?

= June 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 8

1. The pleasure of sneezing
2. Unknown Antilope
3. War stories
4. What solvent to rejuvenate a solvent resistant pen?
5. carbon monoxide
6. Where can I get reliable info about LDL and HDL in quail eggs?
7. Taxonomy confusion
8. Choosing between 3, 4, or 5 digit long chunks

= June 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 9

1. If there are more Na+ ions in the extracellular space, then will raw red meat taste salty?
2. CG and crosswinds
3. Is there a term for functional groups that are displaced during electrophilic substitution reactions?

= June 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 10

1. Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercises 7-1...7-11
2. What do people mean by "reversing diabetes/CVD"?
3. Grey hair
4. Is Zaus gland considered as a lacrimal gland?
5. Yellow mercuric oxide
6. RfC Announce: Wikimedia referrer policy

= June 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 11

1. Could a dog be trained ...
2. Using numbers to make something more believable
3. Nuclear reactor
4. Anxiety as "the great imitator"
5. Tongue-in-cheek scientific studies
6. Heat
7. Diffusion potentials are created by the diffusion of 'very few ions'? meaning
8. Please help identify my pine tree from photos. It looks like a White pine
9. What's the difference between an ant colony, bee colony, and a human society?
10. What's a "snow fruit"?

= June 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 12

1. Why does water not have calories?
2. What's meant by casual sexual encounters in this study?
3. Shared genes between siblings

= June 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 13

1. Is this a sit-up?
2. Electric supercar bursting into flames?

= June 14 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 14

1. Watermelon rind
2. Zero calories
3. Improvement of Hipparchic cycle
4. Magnetic stirrer
5. Quantum cryptography in commercial environment

= June 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 15

1. Why just after getting scabies is needed to wash the clothes in hot water?
2. Digsilent

= June 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 16

1. Refined grains and food security
2. Spermaceti organ weight
3. London tower block fire engineering
4. how does this circuit work?
5. Quantum communications II
6. Can non-treated diabetes cause neurological damage?

= June 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 17

1. How does powdered cheese sauce work?
2. Tanner stages and fertility

= June 18 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 18

1. Francium
2. Yellowstone national park super explosion

= June 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 19

1. Why does the squirty hand soap dribble in hot weather?
2. Why does Earth keep getting nearer and nearer to the edge of the "habitable zone"?
3. Health effects of sulforaphane

= June 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 20

1. What is the nonmetallic liquid with the highest surface tension?
2. Can you make thiourea from urea?
3. What mug material would make it hardest for soda bubbles to resist their buoyancy?
4. How much damage would an explosion at Trinity that barely destroyed New Mexico cause?

= June 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 21

1. Tendons and ligaments are classified under muscular or bone system?
2. Death = last thing seen gets imprinted in the eye
3. Dicotyledonous wood
4. Solar eclipse hype
5. What plane is this
6. Can acetic acid in aqueous solution alone pickle foods?

= June 22 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 22

1. anal sex & hygiene
2. Free Neutrons making dark matter
3. Why is this seal used on buzzers ?

= June 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 23

1. Random chance, probability, and predictability
2. Can wine and beer be used to clean stuff?
3. Pinhole Camera
4. Blocking gravity waves?
5. Can a leaning tower be built in a stable way ?

= June 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 24

1. What Herbivores and Omnivores could realistically live and even thrive in an arctic land where snow covered the ground most of the year ?
2. Is it a goat or a cow?
3. Ethidium bromide (done)
4. Wetness meter

= June 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 25

1. Species in which females are aggressive and males passive
2. Physics: Can a changing spacetime be used to generate unlimited energy?
3. Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 7-4 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/16-b75863d902.jpg JPG]
4. Bringing home the process of making industrial nutritional yeast - how to do it?

= June 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 26

1. A guy where I work contends that CSPAN is actually harming democracy and functioning of usa legislature.
2. Engine knocking
3. See THIS comment!
4. Feynman Lectures. Exercises [http://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Gentoomen%20Library/Extra/Richard_Feynman-Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics%2C_Vol._1_Exercises-1964._Volume_1-Addison-Wesley(1964).pdf PDF]. Exercise 7-11 [http://html.scribd.com/91cmvs8wn433jb9d/images/17-717d48fec1.jpg JPG]
5. Have there ever been lunar calendars where a solar eclipse makes the month start early?

= June 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 27

1. Can anyone have in their mind a representation of four or more dimensions?
2. Limit of intellect

= June 28 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 28

1. Characteristics of a predator
2. Can cross spiders (Araneus diadematus) change colour to match their surroundings?
3. Can hydrogen conduct electricity?

= June 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 29

1. Physics in different engine designs
2. Changing the refractive index of air (without heating it).
3. Dual SIM
4. On what size and time scale can undisturbed air's refraction index appreciably vary?
5. Bioluminescent fungus
6. Study that measures response time and cognitive perception
7. Longevity of fluorsecent lights

= June 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2017 June 30

1. Unfertilized ovary and ripened ovary in angiosperms
2. Rh factor in other animals