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April 1

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  1. Basic readings for understanding Science or Nature
  2. Angelicin synthase

April 3

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 3

  1. Lifetime of information as a function of temperature
  2. Sisters genetically more diverse than brothers?
  3. Non-oceanic tides
  4. Dental floss mole removal
  5. Easter chocolate

April 4

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  1. Can double blind tests be done on blind people?
  2. Putting damp salt in the microwave
  3. Critical temperature
  4. Blue zebra stripes
  5. Wind gusts
  6. Aircraft carriers in WWII
  7. When a body touches another body

April 5

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  1. water drops
  2. Pions in atoms?
  3. Half-octaves

April 6

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  1. Fahrenheit's definition
  2. Merits of logarithmic vs linear scales for temperature?
  3. God and the Big Bang
  4. Delivery of major uk government infrastructure projects.

April 7

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  1. Infinite dimensionality of quantum state
  2. Statics: Method of joints
  3. Plastique: the Terminator corn syrup bomb

April 8

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  1. Water conservation and drought
  2. Is there really such a thing as a cold fever?
  3. Range of the king cobra?
  4. Tigers in Sri Lanka?

April 9

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  1. Natural Gas Blue Flame
  2. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 20-10 [https://s.sender.mobi/u/image/2018/4/9/9B75-hRF9/-.PNG PNG]

April 10

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  1. Plant eating insect

April 11

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  1. Day length in AD 2,500 & 5,000
  2. Biology

April 12

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  1. peanut butter
  2. Satellite eclipsed by satellite?
  3. Sugar concentration

April 13

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 13

  1. Why does it take so long to determine the cause of death?
  2. Is dark matter segregated to the outskirts of galaxies? If so, why?
  3. Chemistry Question

April 14

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  1. Moon's moons?

April 15

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  1. Concrete

April 16

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  1. Amine and Nitramin
  2. E Ink
  3. To whom mostly children similar or look like?

April 17

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  1. Crowley's ridge loess
  2. How much surface can you plate with one gram of gold
  3. Drinking water and hormones
  4. Crowley's ridge

April 18

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  1. domestic or wild
  2. How to dissuade conspiracy theorists?
  3. C4

April 19

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  1. PC-rubber
  2. Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
  3. Plane of sky
  4. A- ion in human cells?

April 20

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 20

  1. Quantum immortals
  2. Radiation-loving species
  3. On measuring weight via force
  4. Is it known if retargeting ICBMs would take longer if you want an explosion near the maximum possible altitude?
  5. Neither Peak nickel nor Peak lithium article?
  6. Are depressed people more likely to drink alcohol, or does heavy alcohol consumption make people more likely to be depressed?
  7. Does personality (in normal people) has to do something with genetics?
  8. “Most children resemble the brother of the mother.”

April 21

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  1. experience day on breast pumps (for milk)
  2. Calories

April 22

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  1. Detecting bird "pregnancy"
  2. Shark bite
  3. Tsar Bomba's effect on the Earth's Position in space
  4. Bass cabinet
  5. What is the exact reason that woman can't get pregnant while breastfeeding?

April 23

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  1. How does solotone cause to strong smell through sweat glands?
  2. For my grandfather.. planetary motion and ultimate conclusions
  3. Food poisoning

April 24

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  1. Galaxy Rotation Curves

April 25

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  1. Matching a light source to a solar panel
  2. What animals eat feces as a normal behavior?
  3. What is a "det. officer?"
  4. Does Beano raise the effective glycemic index of beans?
  5. Statics: Which zero-force member can be removed without reducing structural strength?

April 26

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 26

  1. Mass of entropy, and so on
  2. Silkie chickens

April 27

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  1. Why aren't 3/8 inch and 1/4 inch common calibers?
  2. Has the 75% loss of flying insect mass been observed outside of Germany?

April 28

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  1. Deaths from opioid withdrawal

April 29

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  1. Feynman Lectures. Exercises. Exercise 21-8 [https://s.sender.mobi/u/image/2018/4/29/FgKqT64jO/-.PNG PNG]

April 30

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Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2018 April 30

  1. why we have so long hair?
  2. how human lost his tail?
  3. How often are all 8 planets on the same side of the sun?
  4. Artificially circulating blood without a heart
  5. Eastern wolf