Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Science/October 2023

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October 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 1

1. Variables affecting national fertility rates
2. Crustaceans becoming insects
3. Hashtag: Very High Energy, Particle accelerator, Blueshift

October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 2

1. "I do it because it feels good"

October 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 3

1. Heating any metal makes it red??
2. Why do car wheels have an odd number of spokes?
3. When did recycling start in your countries?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 4

1. EMT's taking EEG
2. Help identifying a biological database

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 5

1. Climate questions

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 9

1. Any significant difference between these two locks?
2. Slew rate: what is a Tesla/sec?

October 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 11

1. Incest depression in humans

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 12

1. "lost continent"
2. Steam engine cylinder size

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 13

1. Imaging Proxima Centauri b

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 14

1. Potentially riskable?
2. The connection between: relativistic mass, rest mass, and velocity. Am I right?

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 16

1. Quantum physics: what is the most photons an electron can release?

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 19

1. How much meat should a bird be eating per week?

October 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 23

1. Heritability and Intelligence?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 24

1. Herbivore and carnivore
2. The most photons an electron can receive?

October 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 25

1. Ants cohabitating with honeybees?
2. Wildlife: rabbits and frogs living together.

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 26

1. Trying to find a good diagram to the somatic and autonomic innervation of mammalian tails (like the cat or monkey)
2. Forestry/logging: Symbol ł in "Age 1500ł years"

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 29

1. Red-bodied swallowtail
2. Kinetic energy, joule and time
3. Reference needed at salt marsh

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2023 October 31

1. Newsweek hospital ranking
2. Circuit breakers and surge protectors.