| AskScience Panel of Scientists XXVII Posted: 20 Jul 2022 10:14 AM PDT Please read this entire post carefully and format your application appropriately. This post is for new panelist recruitment! The previous one is here. The panel is an informal group of Redditors who are either professional scientists or those in training to become so. All panelists have at least a graduate-level familiarity within their declared field of expertise and answer questions from related areas of study. A panelist's expertise is summarized in a color-coded AskScience flair. Membership in the panel comes with access to a panelist subreddit. It is a place for panelists to interact with each other, voice concerns to the moderators, and where the moderators make announcements to the whole panel. It's a good place to network with people who share your interests! ------------------- You are eligible to join the panel if you: - Are studying for at least an MSc. or equivalent degree in the sciences, AND,
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| If the light omitted on the far side of a galaxy is significantly older than that of the front side, why isn't the shape distorted? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 06:36 PM PDT I can't wrap my head around this. In a galaxy that is, say, 100,000 light years across, why do we still see it as a "perfect" formation? submitted by /u/defire101 [link] [comments] |
| Do primate communication contain grammar like human languages? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 09:54 PM PDT |
| Does being born during different seasons make a difference for early child development? Posted: 22 Jul 2022 03:56 AM PDT For example, adults experience different physiological and psychological effects during winter months due to shorter day length and lower vitamin D intake. Is a similar effect noticeable during early child development ? submitted by /u/Gettothachoppurr [link] [comments] |
| Do neuter-and-release programs for feral cats and dogs change the population's behavior? Posted: 22 Jul 2022 05:25 AM PDT Neutering an animal can change it's behavior and temperament. Does this affect a population's behavior as more of them are neutered? submitted by /u/bobtheghost33 [link] [comments] |
| Spent the day curled up on the bathroom floor recovering from a norovirus stomach flu infection. Recently found out that noroviruses are resistant to alcohol-based sanitizers. How is this possible? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 06:06 AM PDT I thought hand sanitizer was supposed to completely sterilize your hands by denaturing proteins that make up the outer layer of all viruses and bacteria? What is it about noroviruses specifically that make them resistant? submitted by /u/payloadchap [link] [comments] |
| Why is the set of positive integers "countable infinity" but the set of real numbers between 0 and 1 "uncountable infinity" when they can both be counted on a 1 to 1 correspondence? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 04:05 PM PDT 0.1, 0.2...... 0.9, 0.01, 0.11, 0.21, 0.31...... 0.99, 0.001, 0.101, 0.201...... 1st number is 0.1, 17th number is 0.71, 8241st number is 0.1428, 9218754th number is 0.4578129. I think the size of both sets are the same? For Cantor's diagonal argument, if you match up every integer with a real number (btw is it even possible to do so since the size is infinite) and create a new real number by changing a digit from each real number, can't you do the same thing with integers? Edit: For irrational numbers or real numbers with infinite digits (ex. 1/3), can't we reverse their digits over the decimal point and get the same number? Like "0.333..." would correspond to "...333"? (Asked this on r/NoStupidQuestions and was advised to ask it here. Original Post) submitted by /u/Namaenonaidesu [link] [comments] |
| If abruptly stopping your alcohol intake can be harmful, or even lethal depending on how long you were consumed by it - does the same apply to Marijuana? Posted: 22 Jul 2022 05:06 AM PDT |
| Are there any long-term climate implications of huge wildfires seen in Western Europe? Posted: 22 Jul 2022 02:37 AM PDT Right now Western Europe is experiencing unprecedented levels of wildfires. Does this impact the rate of wildfires in the future i.e. will the burnt forests be more prone to catching fire next year? And does the carbon monoxide from the burning have a significant impact on climate? submitted by /u/SusiGrantHopeful [link] [comments] |
| How are the stages of cancer determined? Like, what do doctors see in a tumour that makes them go "yep, that's a four. No going back. That's all"??? What makes a cancer a stage two, or three, or four? Posted: 20 Jul 2022 03:55 PM PDT |
| What is the neuroscience behind the motion after effect? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 05:16 PM PDT I have a basic understanding of neural adaptation: the brain stops responding to stimuli after being exposed for an extended period of time. But I don't understand how this leads to seeing motion in static object. This particular sentence (in relation to waterfalls) has me stumped. "Cells responding to the movement of the water suffer a reduction in responsiveness, so that during competitive interactions between detector outputs, false motion signals arise." submitted by /u/BringsHomeBones [link] [comments] |
| When does the bulk of muscle recovery happen after a world out? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 05:42 AM PDT When someone works out, lifts weights, runs, etc. When does the bulk of muscle recovery and repair occur? Does the intensity matter? Short of a full muscle injury like a tear, does a harder workout with more strain on the muscles have a longer peak recovery? Are there things that can assist recovery or bolster it during that period—or hinder it? submitted by /u/jrdubbleu [link] [comments] |
| How do I combine two probabilities to compare them to a single probability? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 04:54 AM PDT Here's a hypothetical scenario I'm trying to figure out: Say I have a basket of 250 apples, and one of them is poisoned. So if I eat one apple out of the basket, I have a 1:250 chance of dying. Now, say I was given the opportunity to instead eat an apple from another basket that holds 2,175 apples (one being poisoned), but to get that opportunity, I first have to eat one from a basket of 30,000 apples. My question is: How do I calculate the combined probability of me dying when first having eaten from the 30,000 basket, then the 2,175 basket? How much safer is that option than just eating from the original 250 apple basket? submitted by /u/m00nwatcher11 [link] [comments] |
| What makes one feature dominant and other recessive? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 01:42 AM PDT I want to know why some features in genetics are dominant and can overcome this recessive ones, how they do this, what is the difference between them? submitted by /u/Gloomy_Efficiency196 [link] [comments] |
| Are Hyenas really devastating to their environment? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 03:50 PM PDT In the Lion King, Hyenas are painted as consuming everything around them and leaving their habitats bare. Is this something based in reality or is it purely for the sake of the movie? submitted by /u/sebiiooo97 [link] [comments] |
| Is it possible for paper and plastic to grow mould? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 04:14 AM PDT |
| How does the Webb telescope capture the big bang itself, and how is it expected to look like? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 07:55 AM PDT |
| Since BA5 can avoid antibodies from the original virus and vaccines, can you also get the original COVID after a bout of BA5? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 01:11 PM PDT I'm wondering if it's a one way street or if they are different enough that their antibodies don't effect the other. submitted by /u/SuperSimpleSam [link] [comments] |
| Does high natural gas and fuel reserves in the ground indicate higher amounts of flora and fauna in the dinosaur age ? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 12:30 AM PDT Is it correct to make the direct assumption that countries which have higher fuel reserves had higher flora and fauna, i.e. higher bio-matter in the dinosaur era(excuse the layman terms sorry). submitted by /u/This-Wrongdoer-1858 [link] [comments] |
| Does graphene fiber need to be impregnated with resin to be applicable as carbon fiber? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 01:33 AM PDT I think we all know what graphene is, and it's cheap production. During my time finding graphene online, I also found out that it can be manufactured into fibers. And an idea went up in my head: "What if I use graphene fiber, instead of carbon fiber?". After all, it's more better in a lot ways than carbon fiber, especially in cost. Like, you can make your own graphene at home-type cheap. BAC motors made a sports car that has graphene body panels, probably using graphene in its' fiber form, that's what I think is most likely how they used it. I read an article about it, but the article didn't say how the graphene became as applicable as carbon fiber, like how BAC used carbon fiber. Does graphene fiber need to be impregnated with resin, like carbon fiber? Or no, it doesn't need to be impregnated with resin? submitted by /u/ArtWheelDrive [link] [comments] |
| why don't ice bergs melt even after floating in water for a long time? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 03:02 AM PDT |
| How severe is the maximum of the current solar cycle expected to be? Posted: 20 Jul 2022 09:03 PM PDT A friend and I were looking at some news stories and wiki articles about solar storms, and we were really confused by how many of the news articles seem to be making a big deal of the upcoming solar cycle maximum, but other resources say that we're expected to have a quieter-than-average solar cycle. We're aware of the risks and big events that are possible with solar cycle maximums, but since a lot of news stories sound like they're trying to convince us that the sun is about to kill us all, we're looking for something a little bit more nuanced to give us some perspective. My friend is interested in astronomy but also has astrophobia so has been looking for something a little more reassuring than articles constantly popping up on his social media recommendations that exaggerate for clicks. What should we actually expect, and what should we look for in news articles to tell us what we actually need to know? submitted by /u/Hedgehogs4Me [link] [comments] |
| What is causing this 2022 global heat wave? Posted: 20 Jul 2022 04:53 AM PDT Any article I can find just says "climate change" which I understand but what are the specific factors and systems that are causing this? And what is seemingly making those systems produce something global and intense? submitted by /u/transporter3 [link] [comments] |
| Do male sharks & their relatives exhibit "clasperedness"? i.e. do individuals prefer to use on or another of their two claspers in mating more often than others & does it vary similarly to right & left handedness in humans? Posted: 21 Jul 2022 02:34 AM PDT |
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