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May 1
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If I can smell something is it losing mass?
Mr Frosty (is such fun; he makes treats for everyone)
Using napalm in a car instead of gasoline
vitreous humor
Andromeda...
Comets and Aristotle
Impedance matching between transmission lines
Male and female bell peppers?
May 2
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Did the Inflationary epoch create time?
Backup CF card
Water in solar system planets
Plant Intelligent/ brain theory
Maintain Hot Water
Rhizobium spp. for pea/beans vs. clovers/alfalfa ?
Yeast vs bacterial culture
Image focus distance of relaxed eye lens
Silicagel (orange to clear indicating) high temperature
May 3
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Did been a quantums in a low temperature?
The myth of endodontic pain
Why are physics texts often lax with integral notation?
Matlab
caffeine in shampoo
Что хуже?
Is it been real a protoplasm electric transformer
Bird song identification, Baltimore MD
May 4
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Immoplex glandular
What's the difference between Supernova 1a and a Nova?
What is it been a electromagnetic induction?
Scientific publishing/communication and language
RNAses in tissue culture
Help identifying a bee/wasp
Science memes
Tamest, most docile pet?
Do people kill more often in their families or outside?
May 5
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Aviation rumble
Concentrated Sun-blackbody equilibrium temperature
Vacuum tube filament conditions
Vegetable wash and pesticide residue in produce
Scientific names
Medium-Chain Triglycerides preservation
May 6
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is anything harder than diamonds? if not, why not?
Superconductor question
Freeze-thaw damage of molecules
Home-made versus store-bought water for tissue culture
Aerogel - Compressive strength
May 7
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legal, medical...electrical? Why are my lights flickering???
Three Pairs of Legs
1,2-Dichloroethene and chloro(fluoro)amine
Meaning of micro
Adult-onset h(a)emophilia
Organic chemistry
May 8
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is Occam's Razor the only thing propping the Big Bang theory up?
natural selection
Light sensitive element
CDC
SCID gene therapy, retrovirus, leukaemia
May 9
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Force-Vector Diagrams (i.e. force calculations)
How precisely can you measure a position on Earth without GPS?
What happens when our bodies get colder?
Have scientists determined the optimal number of hours since you've woken up to do important things?
May 10
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A parachute for a plane
Schizophrenia
Balloon in Virginia
Lactulose and cavities
Are their any substances which do the inverse of Transitions lenses?
What's the slickest solid to bubbles?
Can someone identify this plant please?
Suitable insulating material for end of hair curling iron
Thermal resistance of tungsten-molybdenum alloy
Astronomy help request
A question to sink your teeth into
Commercialisation of Engineering
How a switch button works?
May 11
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Rings and moons
Dove Offspring?
May 12
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I keep cracking my joints
Lifting legs and blood pressure
Work done
Resting eyes by closing
What is the current scientific position on the issue of race supported by American anthropologist and biologists?
Google Maps, the Red River and the Texas/Oklahoma border
A/C efficiency
Question about Penis Transplantation
First moment of area calculations
May 13
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light dependent and light independent reactions in photosynthesis
phoebe fledging
Building an ice-dam.
Why doesn't Huntington's disease burn itself out?
Reliable biography of Nikola Tesla
Typhoid Mary
May 14
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HCV
Biochem question
Cannabis and lung cancer
How do portable (not window) A/C units work ?
Static discharge - where is the charge held and how does it get conducted?
May 15
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old steel bike frame compromised due to cold temperatures?
Bipedalism
an illustration for the standard model of particle physics
Engineering disciplines
May 16
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Patterns That Change When Tilted
radical surgery on antarctic ice using lasers
Staged fire alarms
Why aren't magnets used to make pushing colenoids?
wage slavery around the world
May 17
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University/college life
fusion as a resource?
Did a kreagenny sleep been real
Is "swimming is far more efficient than walking" like StuRat says above?
Is sweating (in mammals) secretion or excretion?
May 18
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Incandescent light bulb color
How long would the TGV take to stop?
Propagation of extremely high frequency sound in air
Breast shrinkage
Sunset time and darkness
May 19
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Games that computers can't play
How German homes are built
How does knowing the gene for a disease help you treat the disease?
Is it true that RNA helix viruses mutate faster than DNA helix viruses?
Inconspicuous transport by sea
Is it true that blood glucose can change your eye prescription if you wear glasses?
Creatures with 3 pairs of limbs
Drug tests, "cleansing"
May 20
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Efficacy of vaccines
Identifying a bird
Projectile dynamics
Musical instruments
Metric prefix
Gay parenting vs heterosexual parenting
May 21
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What type of tree is this?
Pick proof lock
LASIK surgery
Synovial fluid agonist?
Identification of an Electronic Componenet
Eye scream [stolen eyes and retinal scans]
Hammering a nail
May 22
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Quitting Smoking and Weight Gain
Genetic engineering to alter genes
I have -4 power in my left eye but almost neutral in my right eye. If i stop to use the spectacle then what problem may arise ?
Persistance of Electromagnetic radiation
3D printers
Self-detonating buildings
May 23
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Effect of hydrogen on electrical resistivity of metals
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Deep red color becomes faint orange in digital camera picture :(
May 24
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What's the best non-supernatural explanation for Lourdes and Fatima?
The scientific community's past and present views on the observation that most animals, as a general rule, supposedly have the same number of heartbeats
Depression and memory loss
Using liquid nitrogen as a source of nitrogen gas
Alternative energy
Cyclophosphamide
May 25
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Which is good AC or Fan for our health?
Trillions of plastic fragments in Arctic ice
What polymer is formed from phthalic acid and ethylene glycol?
Fan housing
Reverse tomography for 3D "printing"
Professional athletes
May 26
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Example of a distributed parameter system
What can be taken to heal mouth ulcer?
Banana worms
May 27
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Synthesising milk in bioreactors?
Cosmic Microwave Background radiation
Gull knows how to turn on tap/faucet to get water?
light bulb air conditioning savings?
Zone heating/area heating
Why are fruits classified as living things?
Masturbation/ejaculation and hormone levels.
May 28
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X:A ratio
Radiation exposure
Down's Syndrome and obesity
Why were the stellar nursery clouds spinning in the first place?
Native aluminum
What the typical man's and woman's voices sound like. Disagree?
May 29
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Cats drinking
How do doves and pigeons make their vocalizations?
Binary problems with Kepler 64
Beyond cementite
USRDA values for sodium in canned veggies
Time it takes for cigarettes to catch fire longer or shorter than time it takes to catch fire from matches?
May 30
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Hair follicles
Insect identification
Flouride
Optimum speed for an automotive alternator
How was it possible to destroy treasure in a bonfire?
Why do animal babies scream?
bottled water
dream recall
May 31
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Are battery capacities going up or stagnant?
fractals
moons affect on sea level
Transmitting information faster than the speed of light
Calculating the top speed of a car given its power, drag coefficient, and cross-sectional area
horseshoes