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Babies survive by eating solely a mother's milk. At what point do humans need to switch from only a mother's milk, and why? Or could an adult human theoretically survive on only a mother's milk of they had enough supply?

Babies survive by eating solely a mother's milk. At what point do humans need to switch from only a mother's milk, and why? Or could an adult human theoretically survive on only a mother's milk of they had enough supply?


Babies survive by eating solely a mother's milk. At what point do humans need to switch from only a mother's milk, and why? Or could an adult human theoretically survive on only a mother's milk of they had enough supply?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:14 PM PST

What causes our voice to be different when tired or just after waking up?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:31 PM PST

How to measure non-ionizing radiation?

Posted: 06 Feb 2020 05:55 AM PST

I know that a Geiger Counter can be used to measure ionizing radiation, but is there a tool that can be used to measure non-ionizing radiation?

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Why are there no negatively charged heavy subatomic particles?

Posted: 06 Feb 2020 07:45 AM PST

There are protons and neutrons. There are electrons and positrons. But why we don't obsereve any negatively charged "protons"?

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Do deaf people experience subvocalization in a similar manner as those who aren't deaf?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 06:31 PM PST

Are the brain's cognitive and physical functions really compartmentalized into specific areas like most diagrams show?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 06:51 PM PST

Up to now I've had a perception that, if any part of the brain gets severed or removed, the entire brain would shut down and leave a person either dead or in a vegetative state. If an analogy comes to my mind, it would be like a hard drive's spinning outer shell coming into contact with the thin needle and irreversibly damaging itself, rendering its data irretrievable.

However, I have been reading about the practice of lobotomy facilitated by Walter Freeman in the US. But for how abhorrent it is, I'm still perplexed this operation had resulted in a minority of patients coming out of the procedure alive or still functioning for that matter.

Would lobotomies work if there were more precision to it? How do diagrams like this and this stand up to the standard of neurology? Are everyone's brains actually sectioned off like this?

edit: I did not realize that those links were dead, I have the new ones here and here.

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What do you mean by breakdown voltage?

Posted: 06 Feb 2020 01:57 AM PST

Why is the temperature of freezing and melting points for solutions the same ?

Posted: 06 Feb 2020 03:04 AM PST

If you add a solute to water the freezing temperatures is lowered because the solute particles block the water molecules so it is more difficult to form a solid.

This I understand however would this not mean melting would require a higher temperature than normal water as the water molecules breaking away from the solid state would be blocked by the solute molecules?

This would mean freezing and melting are not the same temperatures which does not make sense but my logic above makes sense to me.

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What's the difference between sickle cell disease and beta Thalassemia?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:23 PM PST

Both seem to produce deficient HbA but one makes sickle shapes and the other hemolysis

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Does Charon (Pluto’s moon) have a red spot on its north?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:18 PM PST

I've seen photos where it's just red and white, others where it's just entirely white but a red spot on the north. Help!

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Can I use DH5-alpha E. coli for BAC electroporation?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 04:37 PM PST

I have no idea if this is the right place to ask this. I'm primarily a developmental neuroscientist and I'm trying to purify BAC DNA to make a transgenic D. rerio line. I'm looking for electrocompetent cells that I can use to get the BAC DNA in, and I've been offered a DH5-alpha culture. Does anyone know if these cells will take the BAC DNA? It would save my lab some time and money.

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How does LHC detect the energy of a muon?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 03:09 PM PST

My understanding is that muons mostly just pass through matter (including the detectors at LHC), so how can we know the energy of a muon if it only imparts a small amount of its energy in the detector?

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In the modern animal kingdom, what is the simplest organism (biologically) to exhibit social behavior?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:36 AM PST

Can insects get infections from an open wound similar to animals?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:15 AM PST

What is the mechanism that makes B. Cereus germinate in cooked food where it doesn't seem to be a problem with raw food?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 01:58 PM PST

I tried the cooking sub but got a bunch of guesses. It's well known to not cook rice and leave it in the danger zone very long because it can grow B. Cereus, and reheating the food (aside from pressure cooking) does not destroy the toxins that make you sick. However, many recipes lean on soaking raw rice then either cooking the rice or drinking the liquid. Technically if spores germinated they would be in favorable conditions to grow then produce toxins in the food, but that doesn't seem to ever be the case with raw rice that's been soaked. What's the mechanism of germination and why does it seem like it's heavily dependent on the rice being cooked?

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What creates the intense pain in your chest and throat after running if you’re out of shape?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 05:52 AM PST

Can the human body function without saturated fats in the diet?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:46 AM PST

Do deaf people still feel pain when they're exposed to really loud sounds?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 07:27 AM PST

Is there a reason to suspect that P might be =NP? If so, what is it?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 09:46 AM PST

Are there bicellular organisms?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 11:59 AM PST

So life is made of one or more cells; but it seems to me that its either one cell organism or billions of cells. So my question is, are there any organisms that are made of a few number of cells that work together? Such as a two cell organism, or a 100 cell organism, 1000.

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How did Copernicus and Galileo influence scientific procedures?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 10:08 AM PST

Is it possible for objects to 'draft' each other in space?

Posted: 05 Feb 2020 12:49 PM PST

This may seem confusing, but does a spacecraft create a wake or slipstream when in space? I understand that there's no a lot to disturb in space if something passes through it, but I have read that in a low earth orbit, the level of matter in space is higher. Would there be enough matter to disturb to create a wake/vortex etc for a second spacecraft to fly in, and even take advantage of? I'm doing some research for a novel and can't find a single thing on Google. Thanks in advance for the help!

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