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March 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 1

1. A stationary object in outer space
2. Why can't snow melt here?

March 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 2

1. Colliding EM waves and energy conservation
2. Steel bollards on road - higher risk of accidents
3. physical properties of octane isomers
4. Higher taxa named after people

March 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 3

1. Is there a sea in europe of which its color is green rather than blue?
2. Why coronavirus Indian vaccine “Covishield” is more demanding than “pfizer” which has more efficacy?

March 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 4

1. Why is Nyiragongo a stratovolcano?
2. Do astronomical observatories really shoot laser into sky like this?

March 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 5

1. Seabird IDs
2. Why Space X didn't reveal the reason behind SN 10 failure?
3. Role of anaerobic metabolism in the global carbon cycle

March 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 6

1. Equation regarding amount of heat in a certain amount of matter.
2. RBMK part 2

March 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 7

1. Falcon 9 launch
2. Can heavy water be used as a food preservative?
3. Charge a black hole
4. Why is the outline of heatshield for Perseverance (rover) look so odd?
5. human / plant symbiosis

March 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 8

1. chemistry
2. In standard model of particle physics, what needed to be discovered?
3. Backwards time travel during black holes merger

March 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 9

1. Is it possible to perform heart surgery with silverware

March 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 11

1. Cure to aging question about women
2. Could there be primordial small black holes inside extremely big stars?
3. How can males cry if they have more testosterone count than females?
4. Difference between iron and steel

March 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 12

1. Titanium swords and knives
2. Properties of a macroscopic amount of virus

March 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 13

1. How accurate are images of hubble space telescopes?
2. POSITRON HOLE Article no??

March 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 14

1. How can a same electron situated at multiple places?
2. Alcohol cleaning power
3. First illustration of a dinosaur?

March 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 15

1. Could transferring fetuses to artificial wombs genuinely be a replacement for the abortion pill?
2. Help reading old medical term from handwriting
3. Simultaneous thrombocytopenia and thrombosis after AstraZeneca vaccinations

March 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 16

1. How do surgeons measure blood loss?
2. RBMK, again

March 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 17

1. Gibbs relation
2. Electrical Transmission
3. Hollow Earth collapsing in on itself

March 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 18

1. Crossing two humans' DNA
2. What are biological advantages of human saliva having a lower pH value compared to dog saliva?
3. Geography
4. A cup of tea

March 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 19

1. Is it true age of universe and age of any person are same?

March 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 20

1. Resisting interrogation
2. SMILES for intramolecular hydrogen bonds
3. Algae in the Sargasso Sea

March 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 21

1. Dihydrogen (Monoxide)

March 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 22

1. Why can't humans have tail if they have tails in their sperms?

March 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 23

1. How did Queen Elizabeth (the first) survive smallpox?
2. Science of photography: How is this photograph taken with visible galaxies as background?

March 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 24

1. If universe is vast, then how they keep track of stars or exoplanets?

March 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 25

1. Non descension ot testicles and possible male impotence.
2. Is ionizing radiation emitted in the process of persistent luminescence?
3. Younger looking people

March 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 27

1. From where does carrier waves produces?

March 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 28

1. Electrolytic conductivity
2. E = m·c²
3. Suez Canal blockage

March 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 30

1. wolf diet
2. Vehicle Emissions

March 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2021 March 31

1. What prevents Earth from sinking to its core?
2. Earth's orbit shrinking?
3. Pre-Darwinian Scientists that linked humans to apes.