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August 1

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1. Imane Khelif

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 3

1. Heat capacity, sand battery, check calculation

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 4

1. density of solid tritium
2. Interferometer116.68.77.174 (talk) 17:48, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 6

1. Is there any natural process (i.e. without human intervention), conserving the kinetic energy, without conserving the speed (i.e. the absolute value of velocity)?
2. Metastasis of glioblastoma
3. Sound effects for Jeopardy dollar amounts heard on 1960s phones

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 7

1. Density of Iridium and Osmium

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 8

1. Butch Wilmore

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 9

1. Total daytime per latitude

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 10

1. Since gravity is formed by the stress–energy tensor, which apparently depends on the reference frame, does gravity depend on the reference frame?

August 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 11

1. A hypothetical male version of Jeanne Calment
2. Russia having very few validated supercentenarians

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 12

1. Moffat and ozone
2. How did Carl Linnaeus know about the species he described?
3. photons

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 13

1. Dogs barking at some people
2. Skin disorder
3. Inches and lines

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 14

1. Indeed measuring the neutrino's restmass is regarded to be extremely problematic (or hard), but why can't the following simple experiment solve the problem?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 15

1. Outdated species names of bees in Nomia and Nomadopsis

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 17

1. Transmutation
2. What happens when kids don't get enough sugar?
3. I'm a bit confused about the formal definition of the work done by a constant force: Is that work defind, as a product, or as an integral?

August 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 18

1. Colour of francium
2. Dextrin and wetting

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 19

1. How did people find out which mushrooms are safe to eat?
2. Too big

August 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 21

1. Two types of units

August 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 23

1. Planck's law 1901 article and reverse function

August 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 24

1. The magic number N = 126

August 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 25

1. Arecibo message distance

August 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 29

1. Rounding error in large numbers
2. Photons question.

August 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 August 30

1. Dead batteries come back to life?
2. Metric units in the UK