Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2020

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= October 1 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 1

1. Cleaning with soda
2. Disinfecting power of limewater and milk of lime
3. puberty blocking drugs for cisgender children

= October 4 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 4

1. Electricity flow
2. Could you predict if a specific attempt to crush a flying mosquito with a grab will work if you had enough hand, wind and mosquito data?
3. In the news: Perpetual motion machines may have arrived.

= October 5 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 5

1. Raw eggs are messy
2. Who get to scientifically and/or legally decide which dog is a pit bull and which is not?
3. Eyeball question I've been wondering for many years

= October 6 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 6

1. Iron silicides
2. Sir Herbert Macauly
3. Depth Perception in certain birds
4. Peristalsis in dinosaurs and various birds
5. BIOLOGY - Latin binomial nomenclature, e.g. Iris variegata vs. Iris variegatus

= October 8 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 8

1. Do different persons' immune system create the same anti-bodies?

= October 9 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 9

1. Genes and crime by sex question

= October 10 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 10

1. Elasticity and exhaustion

= October 11 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 11

1. Can a smartphone battery get so old it bricks the phone?
2. Trick or treat

= October 12 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 12

1. Quadrupoles again

= October 13 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 13

1. Tessalate a sphere with magnetic frusta
2. Scientific principles behind dating coaches

= October 15 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 15

1. Hair color articles

= October 16 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 16

1. Is it possible to sequence degraded genomes by taking many samples?
2. Impulse of black powder rocket motors

= October 17 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 17

1. Male and female body strength

= October 19 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 19

1. If two men have anal sex and one man cums inside of the other man's anus, can this man's sperm get inside of the other man's prostate?
2. Do influenza viruses cause the common cold?

= October 20 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 20

1. What's the reason that people in the ancient time believed that removal of spleen will help them to run?

= October 21 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 21

1. Yearly influenza vaccine development time vs. other vaccines

= October 23 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 23

1. Portuguese man o war reproduction.
2. Turning On LED Lightbulb

= October 24 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 24

1. Identify shark animal species from zoo photo, from between four options
2. NASA

= October 25 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 25

1. Which foods becomes to hydrogen ions in stomach?
2. Fusion reactors and the helium crisis

= October 26 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 26

1. Communicating with ants

= October 27 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 27

1. Biggest busts on earth
2. "Nordic race" ectomorphic?

= October 29 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 29

1. Question about topographic maps

= October 30 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 30

1. Science behind the friend zone
2. Why red and blue become black in the darkness?

= October 31 =

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2020 October 31

1. Halloween eclipse
2. Nearby massive black hole or somesuch?