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September 1
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Can it be proven that people dream?
Exercise and blood sugar control in diabetes
Orchids
Coupled atoms
Gravitational time dilation in black holes
Sending probes to other systems
"Element analyser"
Correct Location for "Ethno" Medicines
Black and white races in sports and science
September 2
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The power of intention? How does modern neuroscience explain this bit of ancient wisdom?
Name for the medical trauma caused by having the skin flayed
hunting, foraging and the grandmother hypothesis
Why do we get dizzy when we rotate rapidly?
Comparing antimuscarinic effects of chlorpromazine and trihexyphenidyl.
Gravity affects Time
September 3
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Power Plant Efficiency
Scanimation
Teabags and Toothaches
molecular mass and formula mass
help identify this bug
semi permiable membrane
Biology
Osmosis, diabetes mellitus, and osmosis
The speed of light versus the speed of sound. Which has more for the buck?
September 4
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Question about atomic repulsion.
Flat feet
Projects that cannot complete during the life of the people who started it.
Why doesn't Wikipedia provide medical advice?
what hormone is responsible for the facial fat sexual dimorphism in prepubertal children?
Ionized water - is there any truth to this claim?
why the veins blood is dark more than arteries blood?
about taking blood test from the veins / arteries
Something from nothing
September 5
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CTE
Telescopes on the Moon
Gastrobiology of obesity
Difference between char and charcoal?
Why when the plane fly above the earth, are not affected by the movement of the Earth's rotation on its axis in other words, why not lengthen or shorten the distance between one country and another when it fly?
Three leaves in a dicot plant. Is this a mutation?
Eating shellfish during a red tide
Makeshift electromagnet advice
What is the meaning of A1C?
what is the meaning of "beta" on hormones
September 6
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relation between speed and pressure of the fluid
Laminated beams
Is there a list of human organs weight?
Why did not remain nothing nothing?
can anyone help with references?
Feeding live mice to a cat
ATOMIC MASS AND MOLECULAR MASS
clonning
Why aren't galaxies really bright?
Homemade space suit.
protein loosing - sperm
September 7
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Largest volcano on earth discovered?
Light emitting black hole
Yellow–brown stains on marble
Kidney transplant location
Legality of spectrum analyzer use?
September 8
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Monoethanolamine membranes?
Understanding calculus in non-geometric terms
Why does salt amplify flavors in food?
Coriander
If evolution doesn't exist ...
An Indisputable, Cheap DNA/Genetic Test For Jewish Ancestry/Descent
Zero ohm resistor
September 9
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6d transition metals
Stability of Technetium
Medication and the angle of the head
wasp 2
Three-masted merchantman tonnage discrepancy
Religious people and Alzheimer's disease
Stoichiometry for explosion of Nitroguanidine
why do knots weaken ropes?
September 10
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Physics Practise Exam Question - Can't Get it!
Astable oscillator/multivibrator with logic gates
ISOLATION OF CELL COMPONENTS .
We are not talking about space, but something emerged from no existence and exist that the space
Why do you love God if he does not love you and you're a nobody for him
That we live in a computer screen on the face likening or simulator or why we discovery if that was all you discover is the information illustrated in space , So How crash this screen that was all of this illusion.
Hydrolysis of PET with 30% ammonia
September 11
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Arrhenius base
Evaporation before formation
What's the idea of the antigravity engine and how it works
Power supply problems.
Population before human bottleneck
Obesity baloon treatment
Standing on a Vauxhall Corsa
Diode as radioactive detector - detecting energies?
Is there a scientific definition of "shake well"?
What is the radiation dose (Sv) from a CME when in commercial flight?
Bald Eagle flock...
September 12
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attraction of two masses
Body weight
Cats and Dogs
Polyhedron-polyhedron intersection?
Transmission of blood groups
September 13
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Chemical terminology
Oral masturbation question
Naegleria fowleri — what does it normally eat?
Synthesizing elements 119 and 120
Kidney bruising
Physiology behind eating certain types of food
What happens when you place a Crane Fly in Sulfuric acid?
Underground stream of water
wireless keyboards/mice
September 14
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Solar eclipse
Bad eyesight question
If you poured Coca Cola onto a frog, does it cause distress and death?
antidotes for sodium fluoroacetate
Marine Fossil
Indexing my technology company on Wikipedia
"In nature, on average, only one baby makes it to adulthood, per parent."
Flagellum-driven vehicles
heart acceleration
September 15
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Tungsten carbide is inorganic?
Plank length
My nuts are overly saturated
Solar eclipses
Is carbon tetrachloride an organic compound?
Quality of light needed to charge from solar panel
Eigenstate Symmetry
Food energy
Two Astronomy Questions
Hydrochloric acid changed the colour of plastic tube
Leaf fluffies
Relativistic speed
Mycoremediation of Sarin for Gas Masks
Powerful singing voice before infections?
September 16
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"Sea bamboo"
Has Titan got oil that is not a fossil fuel?
Atomic carbon in ISM
How can I work property rights for something ?
Are you believe general relativity theory ?why?
Woodward effect
Tritiated water
Bug identification
Mycoremediation of Sarin
how to isolate the Acetylsalicylic acid from the white willow (salix)?
That proof "negative time negative equal positive" is wrong|What would happen if proved wrong proof ?
Mountains in Norway
Variable power supply plug
Relationship between knowing how to touch-type and electronic test scores?
September 17
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Cattle teeth and bones
What study is being cited?
Liberty + mental health
Closest relative commonly eaten by humans
Weight gain as a result of overeating
Sword made of Precious metals
Foam nest?
September 18
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Weight loss
Costa Concordia - What is/was its weight? I just don't get it.
Experiments in the Revival of Organisms
Vertical-slit marsupium
Falling into a black hole
September 19
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Borde, Guth, Vilenkin and contracting universe
September 20
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Weekly medicines
Which is the most intelligent insect?
Do we need to eat saturated fat?
Harvesting power from the oceans?
Notung vs. Excalibur
Does eating chlorophyll help the production of hemoglobin?
September 21
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Camera lens for fast-paced sports
Do batteries contain a clear, harmless liquid?
September 22
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NSaid and Ulcers
Outhouses, sheds, and barns
the effect of a working propeller on a plane
Event horizon
aren't all heaters perfect?
September 23
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Biology - Genus: Hepatocystis - conflict - Who described it?
What does the letter V of ECG stand for?
article of CC
Garden Spider doing a spot of trawling?
Dehumidifiers >100% efficient have a COP > 1 as heaters.
Microwave attacks?
Surgical treatments for Tibialis (Anterior) Tendinitis?
Donate my personal data to science
Do cats despise potential energy?
Why does the USA use odd tenths of a Mhz for FM radio?
September 24
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Could polar bears move to mainland Norway and survive there?
Psychotherapy - Control Freak
My food gives me a warm, glowing feeling...
Why produce metallic technetium?
Is there a mechanism to 'turn off' feelings?
Need some help here!
Feminism and Science
Shear force
September 25
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Controlled Release Medications
Sensation in throat
Courting behavior when males ram into each other head first
Mummification
Effect of direction of impact on traumatic brain injury
Schizophrenia rat experiments
aragonite
Nautical twilight
Bestiality and interspecies mating
September 26
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Field interaction from photons or other electromagnetic radiation
How big is the blue stars in diameters
Can life harbor of planets around white main sequence stars, or yellow-white main sequence stars
Everett branch convergence
Colour variations on displays
When dental veneers go wrong...
searching of arm anatomy illustration
September 27
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SF - Some kind of anatomic pathology?
Waterfall fish kill ?
Algebra
Way to get Oils or Oil remnants of the hair?
Touching a touchscreen
Why are the babies in need of sleep more than adults?
How does a laser cut glass?
September 28
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Mould growth from artificially increased humidity
What animals besides spiders have evolved more than two eyes?
Compactified on S5 or T*S3
How do you show stacked staircases in a building plan?
September 29
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Raisins as cough suppressant?
The name of a medical condition
Why do we feel colder when lying down?
How to accurately measure how long someone has lived
Hypothermia
total current in parallel cct
Minors' calorie count
September 30
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Where is East?
Why do planet have eliptical orbit?
Work done by a person carrying a bag on his head
Why is the speed of light in vacuum not relative?
Why do razor blades dull so quickly ?
If soap cleans by removing sebum oil from your skin, and the palms of your hands don't have sebaceous glands, which are the glands that produce sebum oil, does that mean soap never cleans the palms of your hands?