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May 1
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- Can Middle-Easterners be of mixed racial heritage?
- Corynebacterial porin B
- Why does the same temperature feel so much hotter at the beginning of summer than once it's been summer for a while?
- 2-Oxabutan-3-one or ethyl formate
- Isotope enrichment
- Time period of a pendulum when placed in water
- What does "[O]" mean?
- Electromagnetic absorption by water
- projectile motion
- Are we made to process decimal numbers?
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease Herbal Remedies
- Disinfectants that don't stink ?
- Does anyone know this mushroom?
May 2
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- How do scientist/astronomer figure out the star loss mass at giant/supergiant tip
- Temple of the rats
- Hemorrhoid infections
- Deballocker
- Deriving the momentum operator.
- Inert gas
- ITC
- Origin of the belief that parrots eat crackers
- Electromagnetic induction thru an unclosed ring
May 3
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- Dietary Reference Intake/Percent Daily Value
- recognizing a beetle
- Accelerator required for high intensity x-ray?
- What are the natural controls on Eh and pH?
- Was there ever a real species of dinosaur that resembled Barney?
May 4
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- Trimmer vs shaver
- How energetic x-rays (kV) is required to reach above background?
- Spin
- Hassium
- How to get shine/glow in face like celebrities?
- efficiency
- Cooling of smartphones
- Science of mating in humans
May 5
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- can one derive a language's grammar from sample code
- Sodium hydroxide for washing dishes?
- Pope alexander of the borgia family used vitriol or sulfur as a mood anhancer..
- Beef vs. chicken
- Does frequent reading/writing affect neurology of spoken language?
- Athletes and alcohol
- Optimizing learning habits
- Is the blood test influenced by water?
May 6
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- A few chemistry questions
- I want to change a reference on the Elephant Cognition page.
- What kind of bug is this?
- Meteor trail color
- Tetrahydrofuran
May 7
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- Practically insoluble
- Explosive experiments
- Aeronautical Engineering
- Biplane vs. fighter jet
- Zero point energy and the volume of the universe.
- Why do we need omega-3 fatty acids?
- bioremediation
- Remote Sensing
- Venus fly trap digestion
- Why does stirred water reverse direction slightly just before reaching a stop?
- Sodium carbonate electrolysis?
May 8
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- Predicting the history can be wrong
- Nasal congestion and sleep
- Can sun actually magnify electromagnetic waves as depicted in Three Body (science fiction)?
- Bird question
- Arthritis
- How would a Sulfur Aluminum battery compare
- drafting - mechanical drawings
May 9
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- When was the cactus introduced to China?
- Is there actually a trend in the size of fragments of a broken object or is it a hoax?
- The size of sun seen from planets look bigger during sunset?
- Electromagnetic radiation effect
- Earth's orbital plane and its revolution
- Question about Science career choice in India
- Genetic diversity of dogs vs. other mammals
- How did our Stone Age ancestors get enough vitamin A?
May 10
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- collars and tie outs
- Why have there not been visitors from the future?
- Mountain prominences and parentage
- List of Products that contain triclosan
- Double minor
May 11
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May 12
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- Why are there no terrestrial creatures that can emit electricity as a weapon?
- Harbor seal rookeries in Maine & northeast
- Homo superior and human brain evolution
- Astrophysics & Geography
- Special Relativity
May 13
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- Other than dogs, what animals mainly perspirate by drooling?
- Clam meat
- A Boy and His Atom
- Peroxodisulphate
- Zero point energy and the volume of the universe.
- Carbohydrate jacket potato overdose?
- Hot Jupiters
- galactic plane all the same?
- Determination of titratable acidity in apple juice
May 14
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- has solar system sidereal rotation
- "Nipple delay"?
- Animal defense
- Big Bang
- The Universe
- Sucrose gradient
- 3 core 0.229in diameter wire vs 7 core 0.229 in diameter wire pure copper
- Did Prafulla Chandra Ray discovered Mercurous nitrite?
- What do you call the inverse of speed?
May 15
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- Is this an artifact?
- Office plant identification
- Weak mixing angle
- The number of microbes in the throat in case of cough
- Nuclear reaction
- Explosions...IN SPACE!
- Amateur (or professional) mycologist wanted
May 16
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May 17
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- Cold myth
- Type 1a supernova with a neutron star instead of a white dwarf? (a twofer for that star)
- Toluene
- Special Relativity: follow up
- Small golden brown beetle
- why silver reduces gold?
- Sleep theory
May 18
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- Strange-looking cherries
- Bonobo endocrinology
- We've heard about beneficial bacteria, perhaps there are beneficial cancers?
May 19
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- Quantum foam, zero-point energy, the fabric of the cosmos
- What time of day and date of the year would most people on earth be in darkness?
- Dark band between two lasers?
- Are dogs ever allergic to wheat gluten ?
- Machine made of Human parts
May 20
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- Throwing one's hands in the air
- Decay product
- Mysterious lack of airspeed
- Human body
- Original Earth-Moon distance
May 21
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- what is the most amazing tornado footage ever filmed?
- Spoiled Tabasco
- why atomic silver clusters catalyze ionic silver reduction?
- Deriving the Saha equation Using statistical Mechanics
- Teen Invents Super fast battery charger
- Melting point of a diamond
- Meowing of male and female cat
May 22
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- More questions about earth-moon distance
- Which types of dogs lives longer, larger dogs or smaller dogs?
- Measuring entropy
- Special Relativity: follow up
- Steroids and bodybuilding
- Biology
- Name the following psychiatric symptoms
- Butterfly effect and scientific method
- Damp proof course
- Which is bigger?
- Buying pure elements
- Using small LCDs for other purposes
- "Non-Newtonian Play-Doh"
- ADSL filter with 2xBS 6312 sockets and one ADSL (RJ11 is it?) socket...
May 23
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- Bodies of water silting up
- Validity of the ideal gas law
- Is there any scientific evidence about spirits and their ability to affect the living?
- Measuring roughness
- global warming referred to in article - is this statement up to wiki standards?
- Why do East Asians, particularly Chinese people, dominate at table tennis?
May 24
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- Chicken game
- interference
- Are there giant rats of about 90cm large?
- Can Minkowski's addition to Special Relativity be experimentally supported / disproved?
- How much electric shock can cause permanent tissue damage?
- Scientific name for a local variety of radish (Choti) grown in Karnali region in Nepal
- Breathing
- Smallest living being able to learn?
- Can you gain more weight than you eat?
May 25
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May 26
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May 27
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- Salt and sea salt
- ELectrostatic Energy
- Purpose of small building connected to upper floor of generating station
- I need to know the names of 4 things
- How is water pumped to the treetop?
- My cat and formic acid, etc.
- No blossoming
May 28
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- What's New by Bob Park
- Self-contamination possible? Trying to understand bathroom germ contamination and how it works
- Life expectancy corrected for sleeping time
- Best Hook Orientation
May 29
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- A superacid under extreme conditions
- Berylium inhalation when needle-scaling.
- How can I measure the weight of a plant without unrooting it, or cutting it into pieces?
- solar wind
- Physical attractiveness of men
- Size of the nucleus
- Which Scientific name is correct
- Question regarding the statistical approach to define entropy
- Proto-languages and proto-genomes
- Are there similar things to ruin marble?
- Radiation and motion sickness
May 30
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- Is my dwarf Aleppo pine tree dying?
- Any body can help me with ansys??
- Window or Incandescent light better for illumination versus heat
- Li-po battery underperformance
- Titration question
- Bird identification
- Calories