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- rephrasing of my question
- Drivers of diesels who have to park in the cold
- People with knowledge in Organic chemistry Symphatomimetic amines
- gemstone questions
- How long would Lake Erie have to be before Buffalo's climate gets less snow?
- Is the Adrenaline agonist while in the same time it's antagonist too?
- How do I make a perfect cup of hot cocoa?
- Shape of the continents
- PLL vs band-pass
- Conversion
- Is ascorbic acid strong enough to dissolve skin?
- How does a multicellular, eukaryotic body treat heat-resistant pathogenic bacteria?
- Correcting a user's name in sandbox
December 4
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 8
- Virus contagiousness
- Baldness in males
- Very begulling
- Largest venomous/poisonous organisms
- Wooden chopping board on induction cooktop
- Universe's radius and the Big Bang's start point
- Antikythera mechanism questions
- Minimum air speed for traversing time zones faster than sun
- Medicinal Mushrooms Article Disappeared
December 9
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- What a shock! You almost gave me a heart attack!
- Diabetes and hypoglycemia
- Facial surgery
- Deaf and blind people interacting with traffic
- Ethics of cloning humans without brains
- Defences against EMP
- How many lecture hours does a bachelor of science have?
- If you cannot breath, can you say "I cannot breath?"
December 10
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 11
- Voice impersonation
- How can fresh cavities form at the margins of sliver amalgam fillings on teeth?
- effect of pupil responses on the electroretinogram
- What is the reason for low blood pressure during pregnancy?
- A/D using digipot?
- Why does Vitamin E called "antisterility"?
- Candies' strange behavior
- what was the incidence rate of general opc by 2007?
- why doesn't the atmosphere burn if it contains oxygen?
December 12
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- Why is it, when we need to cry, it just doesn't work?
- The suffix "olol" in the three beta blockers: "Propranolol" "Atenolol" "Metoprolol "
- What will be the influence of the place without gravity on the cardiovascular system?
- self-destruct capabilities of military craft
- Tomato sauce as detergent
- Bubbles on chocolate milk
December 13
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- how does evolutoin come up with CRAZY stuff like, "I'll wrap my tongue all the way around my head and through my nostrils"?
- Can animals without a prefrontal cortex have anxiety disorders?
- Does GPS need satellites?
- What is the relation between green foods and vitamin k?
- How would we observe wormholes?
- Carbonylated dihydridoiron
December 14
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- When taking a shower, does the body loses liquids (/water)?
- Why is the day divided into 24 hours?
- Heating Shale Oil with Microwaves
- Long-term effects of antihistamines on mind and CNS
- B cell receptor editing
- Why can't you just buy antibiotics?
- How many percents of the human blood are water?
- What is the strongest organ in the human body, in all aspects?
- Where can I read about the influence of the gravity on the blood pressure?
- What do nutrient deficiencies tell us about early modern human diet?
- Do animals in nature just copulate among their peers?
- Capillary action in a tube of insufficient length in a gravity free space
- Sanity Test for Einstein's Train Experiment
December 16
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- Why we shouldn't eat already dead animal instead of killing & eat them?
- Why does anxiety cause diarrhea or constipation?
- Sound from laying your head on your hand
- physics
- Mumps
- Is it known which drug is with the longest half life
- Why wouldn't Mcdonald's French Fries rot?
- Can you "see" a cell-phone probing for a network?
December 17
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- Hydrochloric acid and methylbenzene
- why is time known as the fourth dimension?
- Changes in Mammalian Milk composition - Biochemistry question
- circuit analysis
- How do the enzymes and nutrients in breast milk survive body temperature?
- Resistance of electrically conductive paint.
- Cloning by chance
- How much would it cost get tested for every genetic risk factor known to man?
- In your hair
December 19
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- Did anyone ever make a weird mathematical treatment of physics with extra dimensions of time?
- Is the heart's valves made of cartilage?
- Is it true that any tendon has two sides - one connected to muscle and the other to the bone or cartilage?
- how many people with gonorhea eventually go on to develop prostatitis?
- HIV testing
- Relative concentration of Chitinase in various fruits
December 20
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- Tiny islands
- Were blacksmiths losing their hearing?
- Is not keeping bread in a fridge really a good piece of advice?
- A to D s
- Could fat tissue be a beneficial cancer?
- Could slow-growing cases of prostate cancer be beneficial in some cases?
- Electrical wiring – wrapping electrical tape around swtiches and receptales
- Why does running water cause the need to urinate?
December 21
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- What is the difference between tap water to the physiology solution?
- When I take a shower does I lose my body water?
- Why weren't compound bows invented much sooner?
- many versions forms of the arm veins
- Given a perfectly sealed airship, could it remain in the air for years?
- Baumgartner's video
- The longest half life medication is known?
December 23
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- What is the reason for the red color of SEDURAL that appears in the urine of the patient?
- Dealing with a difficult “educator”
- When cheeking blood for glucose- how many types of molecules of glucose does it cheeks?
- Insulin and other hormones
- Main Battle Tank
- Does having many dream-wake cycles in a few hours have an effect on content?
- The train-and-platform thought experiment:
December 25
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editWikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2014 December 26
- Can anyone name any documentaries specially about the Narwhal?
- is Turritopsis_dohrnii immortal? why isn't anything?
- Is it possible to buy large and affordable (artificial) gemstones like rubies, emeralds and sapphires?
- Excess of Nitrogen in the blood
- Road surfaces
- Please help me identify this anatomical feature
- Is universe a isolated system?
December 27
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- Reducing the fever by drugs doesn't harm the body?
- Self driving trains
- The visible "envelope" of atmosphere slightly beneath the aurora
- How detailed must a perfectly accurate brain model be?
- Tiles instead of continuous cover on Space Shuttles
- Cheeky/irreverent precious substance questions
- Reception of Einstein's ideas
- Why was any rocket ever painted?
- Hand pain
- Rabbit inbreeding and genetic diseases
December 28
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- Is there a correlation between G6PD deficiency to allergy to penicillin?
- Why is jet fuel measured in pounds and not in gallons?
- Lichen and moss identification
- Hemorroids!
- Moment capacity of beam
- The crossing of a small female toy dog and a large male dog
- Question about contraception--Can RISUG/Vasalgel theoretically fail?
December 30
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- Proper name for a wrench that works on smooth shafts and how it works
- Implantable Fuel-Cell
- What is the reason for the changes between the right and left valves in the heart?
- Why dont things stay floating in the air
- Bumper cars security when obtaining power just from the floor
- Influenza vaccine allergy