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April 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 1

  1. Remoteness in space

April 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 2

  1. Does a quantum vacuum slow down light a little?
  2. Railway building in Japan
  3. What are the small swarming flying insects I sometimes encounter in the woods?

April 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 3

  1. Bird or butterfly?
  2. Regarding selection rules

April 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 4

  1. Origin of "natural history"
  2. Crystal structure of a gas

April 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 5

  1. The life expectancy of transgender people
  2. axial tilt and orbital inclination

April 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 6

  1. Welding two copper pieces together.

April 7[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 7

  1. Electric fan vs propeller

April 8[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 8

  1. Why do asteroids avoid Earth's inclination?
  2. Is there theoretically a way to somehow permanently modify one's body so that one could eat however much one wanted without ever gaining weight?
  3. mechanical car
  4. If people with longevity genes are going to reproduce much more than the general population, are we going to see a massive increase in the number of 120+ year olds?

April 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 9

  1. Medicine prices US vs the world
  2. Hole in Eastern deer tick distribution

April 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 10

  1. Dark matter in subatomic particles
  2. Laptop batteries Wh and mAh
  3. Why do filling stations sell by volume (and not by mass)?

April 11[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 11

  1. Flight planning
  2. X and Y chromosomes versus others in genetic diversity

April 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 12

  1. What is the output of a radio telescope observation?

April 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 13

  1. Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration (MCMH)
  2. Hemispatial neglect, and turning 180 degrees
  3. Heat from heat lamps vs heat from heaters

April 14[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 14

  1. Neutrinos interacting

April 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 15

  1. Ocean rocket launches.
  2. Foam dropping on the roof in the Notre Dame fire

April 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 16

  1. How to prove flat Earth
  2. hibernation
  3. When was and for how long was the background radiation around room temperature?
  4. Effect of path of Bluetooth cable on signal strength

April 17[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 17

  1. Interstellar Propulsion

April 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 18

  1. illegal street drugs causing death
  2. Odd TV antenna behavior

April 19[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 19

  1. Fear of too many moving objects
  2. Double bass sound

April 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 20

  1. TFA?

April 21[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 21

  1. Calling all copy editors and content creators

April 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 23

  1. Seasonal day length variation
  2. Universe

April 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 26

  1. "Joules per mole of charge"
  2. Scientifically speaking, is it possible to clone the dead?
  3. Why is electricity harmless to dry intact skin below several tens of eV but air does damage above ~0.03eV and sunlight's harmless at 2eV?
  4. Rapid deterioration in ill people

April 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 27

  1. Can neutron stars be broken up?
  2. Geography question—What counts as bordering? (Samara Oblast)

April 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2019 April 28

  1. Photo of black hole in M87
  2. Camouflage and chromatophores
  3. Heat and Sound Conduction Through Air
  4. Helium hydride ions
  5. Bumblebee species classification