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December 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 1

1. Fusion power critics

December 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 2

1. Velocity and acceleration in special relativity
2. Snow questions

December 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 3

1. How long is this problem in molecular biology?

December 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 5

1. Birds with white cheeks
2. Time dilation
3. How is Rainbow considered as application ?

December 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 6

1. Geodesics for Massive and Massless Particles

December 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 7

1. Source

December 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 8

1. Unit questions

December 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 9

1. I'm collecting examples of a purely "physical property of a physical property" (of a body).

December 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 10

1. Proton decay and cosmic expansion

December 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 13

1. What is the most iconic tornado photo

December 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 15

1. help to identify :File:Possible Polygala myrtifolia in New South Wales Australia.jpg
2. How to address changes to taxonomy
3. Does stopping masturbation lead to sperm DNA damage?

December 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 16

1. Abelian sandpile model
2. Polar night

December 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 17

1. differential equations with complex coefficients

December 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 18

1. Why don't all mast radiators have top hats?
2. Name of our solar system
3. Mountains

December 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 19

1. Does human DNA become weaker with each generation?
2. Larvae going south

December 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 20

1. Winter solstice and time of sunrise?
2. Three unit questions

December 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 24

1. Unknown species of insect

December 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 25

1. Mass of oscillating neutrino

December 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 27

1. Low-intensity exercise
2. fastidious organism vs auxotroph

December 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 28

1. Paper with wrong enantiomer in a figure
2. Where can I find data on the circulation and citation rates of these journals?
3. So-called “Hydrogen water”

December 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 29

1. Potential energy vs. kinetic energy. Why not also "potential velocity" vs. "kinetic velocity"? E.g. in the following case:

December 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 30

1. Saltiness comparison
2. The (uncommon?) terms "relativistic length", and "relativistic time".
3. What did Juan Maldacena say after "Geometry of" in this video?

December 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 December 31

1. Brightest spot of a discharge tube