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March 1
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Mens Vescicles
Clock reverses movement direction
Paper consumption in weighbridge in thermal power plant
Why do wooden ships sink?
Quality of a television output
Food of the future News
Is everyone does Valsalva maneuver?
Bandwidth of alien broadcasts.
US midwest bronchitis outbreak
March 2
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Odor of Human Feces
Is cross-species surrogacy possible?
Upcoming NASA mission to Mars
In which does the cardiac cycle begin?
Color of human feces (Melena)
Sex chromosomes are found in somatic cells as in the sex cells?
March 3
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How does a GPS know its precision?
Does mitosis occur in both somatic cells and sex cells?
What does it mean "condensation" in context of chromosomes?
Ice skate friction
Is there such a thing as one replicate?
Deadly biocontainment
can Vasectomies and tubal ligations be performed easily on cats
Displacement of the SS Badger
March 4
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List of possible things that could be gained from Earth (mud, soil, etc…)
March 5
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Do all mammals have pair of kidneys like human being has?
Falcon 9 full thrust
"chemical castration" for racehorses
Subject of image :File:Jj6.png
List of possible things that could be gained from the Sun
March 6
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white substance in the kidney in picture on wikipedia
Questions instead of hypotheses
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Skin cancer from smoking
Need to drill inverted cone into top of LED
March 7
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Reverse Correlation Method
Wi-fi
Why metering devices are based on different standards and different etalons?
Muscle memory
March 8
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Can we read minds with science ?
conjoined twins are usually born with two hearts or one?
Wi-Fi part 2
source for the sentence that humans have 7 subdivisions in renal medulla
How much power do field lights use?
When running is there an Vasodilation or Vasoconstriction in the blood vessels?
Oort cloud
Provenance of image
Does the ovum is made of many cells?
March 9
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Some structures on a ship's deck
What is this US Navy electronic thing?
Why during a total solar eclipse one can't see stars?
March 10
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Why have two units, like Calories and Joules?
Clinical engineering
Field engineers
Energy content of water and carbon dioxide
Distinct types within a species
Ring modulation
March 11
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Merge request
Underwater vortices
Nitrogen narcosis
Floaty but sturdy material?
Cost of Gorilla Glass
logarithmic decay instead of exponential decay?!!!
Free energy "model" as mathematical (formulaic) inspiration
Two reagent model, one decomposing the other
March 12
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Interrupted Dreams
Does any one know?
Wind mill blades efficiency
Eczema herpeticum
STDs and alcohol
C4H10O
March 13
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Hand-thrown projectiles
Did technical methods - technical levels of application and use are been determined a physical and chemical properties of all substances?
Distance updates due to expansion of the Universe
Would it be possible to have a SEM at home?
Does woman can have an erection in her clitoris if she looked in men?
March 14
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Erecting a species
Is it dangerous to eat a lot of eggs?
Are there Propane detectors on the Exomars probe, and, if not, why not?
What is the maximum value for GFR?
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What holds tangerine lobules together?
March 15
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Intensity of Odor of Cats Feces
Where were temperatures 11.5 C warmer on average in February?
When scientists need cocaine for an experiment, where do they get the cocaine from?
How long it takes to charge a scooter battery from the engine
March 16
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What is the difference between magnitude and amplitude? (in physics)
Diameter and length
When was the first known vivisection as a part of the anatomy study?
sun's power
Sintering
Getting acid
Natural Disasters and the Environment
Fruit ID
March 17
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Ancient Greeks in Norway
What's an "anti-dark soliton"?
LIGO precision
March 18
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Light path analysis and consequences
Evolutionary jump of plastic-eating bacteria
Believing fiction is real
Northing / Easting Conversion
What are you supposed to do with desiccants?
Chemical Symbol
March 19
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Name for type of spring
Did a cheapness always allows to satisfy much needs of more people?
Sword-billed hummingbird preening
Serial Wire Debug Port
Do you need to burn fuel to decelerate a spaceship when landing?
Ritalin, similar chemically similar to cocaine?
Evolution vs. the Second Law of Thermodynamics
March 20
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Null result of Michelson–Morley experiment extrapolation
Dandelion wine
cultural acceptance of homosexuality lead to its evolutionary demise??
Silver polish
Pacific Ocean disappearing
Preparing Hydrogen cyanide without platinum.
March 21
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Is that true that vegetables as well as eggs lose their vitamins while cooking or frying?
What is the substance in eggs which cause them to be foamed while mixing (and at all)?
Which substance does increase the output while drinking tea or coffee?
Airplane susceptibility to winds
March 22
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Dust in air: outside vs inside
Crude ash content of food
uranium or plutonium in nuclear weapons
March 23
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Hospitals inhibiting cell phone signal
March 24
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Is gray matter of CNS - just collection of the bodies?
Is it known which substance (ingredient) in cow milk causes to sleepiness?
The article on "specific impulse" seems to mix up force and mass (physics)
A reflection on black hole event horizon (physics)
Egg white whipping with contaminants
Entropy. Statistical mechanics. Information ~ Energy
March 25
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Amplitude stabilisation of sinusoidal electronic oscillators
How to block out female pin headers
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Old cod liver oil capsules useless?
Isolated neutron--how many neutrinos go thru it, or at least strike it, per second, at least on Earth with the average flux here?
What is the relation between axon and its etymology?
what is meta-sympathetic system?
March 26
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Information ~ Energy. Maxwell's demon. Szilard
SI status of the litre
Presynaptic cell must be neuron or it can be also miocyte for example?
March 27
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What is the meaning of AKA in the context of the nervous system anatomy?
What does it mean "specialized population of neurons"?
Military applications of wafersats
Nephron can be considered also as a cell?
Effective Strength of a martian "Storm"
Is solder for mechanical joining different from electrical?
Deep space telescope
Cats
What does "non-Gaussian AO situations" mean?
March 28
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64-hour days
Crossing the Bering Strait
Normal to have one nostril always blocked?
How many types of neuron cells do exist?
Special relativity. Derivation of
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biotin crosslinking with streptavidin
Medicine price in the US: wholesale $5-7, monthly $100-$200
March 29
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bird ID
In fact indeed do exist a real uni-polar neuron?
Special relativity. Simultaneity
Kinetic energy of charged particles
Most abundant species?
March 30
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Rumination Syndrome Weight Loss
What is the substance which makes the yellow color of the urine?
Is there a species that comes in at least 3 very saturated and very different colors?
Can anyone name a legal compound of Bromphiramine X, where X is an expectorrant, but not considered a "cough medicine"?
Allergens in mushrooms
March 31
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When did the Moon become tidally locked to the Earth ?
Is it easier for a tornado to make a cow fly or a car or a mobile home/trailer?
Self-driving cars and drafting
Anti-wart vaccines