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May 1
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- If I can smell something is it losing mass?
- Mr Frosty (is such fun; he makes treats for everyone)
- Using napalm in a car instead of gasoline
- vitreous humor
- Andromeda...
- Comets and Aristotle
- Impedance matching between transmission lines
- Male and female bell peppers?
May 2
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- Did the Inflationary epoch create time?
- Backup CF card
- Water in solar system planets
- Plant Intelligent/ brain theory
- Maintain Hot Water
- Rhizobium spp. for pea/beans vs. clovers/alfalfa ?
- Yeast vs bacterial culture
- Image focus distance of relaxed eye lens
- Silicagel (orange to clear indicating) high temperature
May 3
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- Did been a quantums in a low temperature?
- The myth of endodontic pain
- Why are physics texts often lax with integral notation?
- Matlab
- caffeine in shampoo
- Что хуже?
- Is it been real a protoplasm electric transformer
- Bird song identification, Baltimore MD
May 4
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- Immoplex glandular
- What's the difference between Supernova 1a and a Nova?
- What is it been a electromagnetic induction?
- Scientific publishing/communication and language
- RNAses in tissue culture
- Help identifying a bee/wasp
- Science memes
- Tamest, most docile pet?
- Do people kill more often in their families or outside?
May 5
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- Aviation rumble
- Concentrated Sun-blackbody equilibrium temperature
- Vacuum tube filament conditions
- Vegetable wash and pesticide residue in produce
- Scientific names
- Medium-Chain Triglycerides preservation
May 6
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- is anything harder than diamonds? if not, why not?
- Superconductor question
- Freeze-thaw damage of molecules
- Home-made versus store-bought water for tissue culture
- Aerogel - Compressive strength
May 7
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- legal, medical...electrical? Why are my lights flickering???
- Three Pairs of Legs
- 1,2-Dichloroethene and chloro(fluoro)amine
- Meaning of micro
- Adult-onset h(a)emophilia
- Organic chemistry
May 8
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- is Occam's Razor the only thing propping the Big Bang theory up?
- natural selection
- Light sensitive element
- CDC
- SCID gene therapy, retrovirus, leukaemia
May 9
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- Force-Vector Diagrams (i.e. force calculations)
- How precisely can you measure a position on Earth without GPS?
- What happens when our bodies get colder?
- Have scientists determined the optimal number of hours since you've woken up to do important things?
May 10
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- A parachute for a plane
- Schizophrenia
- Balloon in Virginia
- Lactulose and cavities
- Are their any substances which do the inverse of Transitions lenses?
- What's the slickest solid to bubbles?
- Can someone identify this plant please?
- Suitable insulating material for end of hair curling iron
- Thermal resistance of tungsten-molybdenum alloy
- Astronomy help request
- A question to sink your teeth into
- Commercialisation of Engineering
- How a switch button works?
May 11
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May 12
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- I keep cracking my joints
- Lifting legs and blood pressure
- Work done
- Resting eyes by closing
- What is the current scientific position on the issue of race supported by American anthropologist and biologists?
- Google Maps, the Red River and the Texas/Oklahoma border
- A/C efficiency
- Question about Penis Transplantation
- First moment of area calculations
May 13
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- light dependent and light independent reactions in photosynthesis
- phoebe fledging
- Building an ice-dam.
- Why doesn't Huntington's disease burn itself out?
- Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
- Typhoid Mary
May 14
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- HCV
- Biochem question
- Cannabis and lung cancer
- How do portable (not window) A/C units work ?
- Static discharge - where is the charge held and how does it get conducted?
May 15
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- old steel bike frame compromised due to cold temperatures?
- Bipedalism
- an illustration for the standard model of particle physics
- Engineering disciplines
May 16
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- Patterns That Change When Tilted
- radical surgery on antarctic ice using lasers
- Staged fire alarms
- Why aren't magnets used to make pushing colenoids?
- wage slavery around the world
May 17
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- University/college life
- fusion as a resource?
- Did a kreagenny sleep been real
- Is "swimming is far more efficient than walking" like StuRat says above?
- Is sweating (in mammals) secretion or excretion?
May 18
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- Incandescent light bulb color
- How long would the TGV take to stop?
- Propagation of extremely high frequency sound in air
- Breast shrinkage
- Sunset time and darkness
May 19
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- Games that computers can't play
- How German homes are built
- How does knowing the gene for a disease help you treat the disease?
- Is it true that RNA helix viruses mutate faster than DNA helix viruses?
- Inconspicuous transport by sea
- Is it true that blood glucose can change your eye prescription if you wear glasses?
- Creatures with 3 pairs of limbs
- Drug tests, "cleansing"
May 20
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- Efficacy of vaccines
- Identifying a bird
- Projectile dynamics
- Musical instruments
- Metric prefix
- Gay parenting vs heterosexual parenting
May 21
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- What type of tree is this?
- Pick proof lock
- LASIK surgery
- Synovial fluid agonist?
- Identification of an Electronic Componenet
- Eye scream [stolen eyes and retinal scans]
- Hammering a nail
May 22
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- Quitting Smoking and Weight Gain
- Genetic engineering to alter genes
- I have -4 power in my left eye but almost neutral in my right eye. If i stop to use the spectacle then what problem may arise ?
- Persistance of Electromagnetic radiation
- 3D printers
- Self-detonating buildings
May 23
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- Effect of hydrogen on electrical resistivity of metals
- [https://wiki.riteme.site/wiki/Special:Search?search=dihydrogen+monoxide&prefix=Wikipedia%3AReference+desk%2FArchives&fulltext=Search+reference+desk+archives&fulltext=Search Dihydrogen monoxide]
- Deep red color becomes faint orange in digital camera picture :(
May 24
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- What's the best non-supernatural explanation for Lourdes and Fatima?
- The scientific community's past and present views on the observation that most animals, as a general rule, supposedly have the same number of heartbeats
- Depression and memory loss
- Using liquid nitrogen as a source of nitrogen gas
- Alternative energy
- Cyclophosphamide
May 25
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- Which is good AC or Fan for our health?
- Trillions of plastic fragments in Arctic ice
- What polymer is formed from phthalic acid and ethylene glycol?
- Fan housing
- Reverse tomography for 3D "printing"
- Professional athletes
May 26
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May 27
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- Synthesising milk in bioreactors?
- Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
- Gull knows how to turn on tap/faucet to get water?
- light bulb air conditioning savings?
- Zone heating/area heating
- Why are fruits classified as living things?
- Masturbation/ejaculation and hormone levels.
May 28
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- X:A ratio
- Radiation exposure
- Down's Syndrome and obesity
- Why were the stellar nursery clouds spinning in the first place?
- Native aluminum
- What the typical man's and woman's voices sound like. Disagree?
May 29
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- Cats drinking
- How do doves and pigeons make their vocalizations?
- Binary problems with Kepler 64
- Beyond cementite
- USRDA values for sodium in canned veggies
- Time it takes for cigarettes to catch fire longer or shorter than time it takes to catch fire from matches?
May 30
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- Hair follicles
- Insect identification
- Flouride
- Optimum speed for an automotive alternator
- How was it possible to destroy treasure in a bonfire?
- Why do animal babies scream?
- bottled water
- dream recall