AskScience Panel of Scientists XXII |
- AskScience Panel of Scientists XXII
- Are there crazy caves with no entrance to the surface pocketed all throughout the earth or is the earth pretty solid except for cave systems near the top?
- I read on the NYT that “Even the 1918 Spanish flu virus eventually faded into the seasonal H1N1 flu.” Does this mean that the seasonal flu is just an evolved version of the 1918 strain? If so, are we likely to have a seasonal COVID-19 for years to come?
- Do viruses contribute to the ecosystem?
- What made the Smallpox vaccine so effective?
- Does an Operating System use the CPU cache? If yes, by what amount on average?
- In recent news it has been announced that trials of a vaccine that could protect against the coronavirus are set to begin in the UK. Can someone explain why the control group is given the conjugate MenACWY vaccine) as comparison, and not a placebo such as saline solution ?
- How much credibility does the theory 'exposure to sunlight reduces myopia' hold since there doesn't seem to be a general consensus?
- What is the chain of events that leads to death when someone is made to ingest a strong alpha emitter?
- Why do some superheavy elements have a group while others don't?
- Is entropy of formation always positive?
- Why isn't ELISA or other serological tests being used to diagnose sars cov 2?
- Vaccine clinical trials - Are mRNA vaccines (e.g. Moderna's) slower to develop?
- What happens if one star in a binary pair goes supernova close enough to the other star to be caught in the blast?
- How do wet dreams cause ejaculation without physical stimulation?
- How much does the earth's atmosphere condense (roughly), in vertical distance from the surface, during the winter?
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| Do viruses contribute to the ecosystem? Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:19 AM PDT Will anything happen if all viruses simply disappeared? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| What made the Smallpox vaccine so effective? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 11:51 PM PDT Smallpox was considered eradicated by WHO as of 1980, but in the 40 years since we have yet to achieve the same feat in another human disease. What were the contributing factors to why we could eradicate one disease, but haven't done so since? Is it just a matter of priority? Are there any good contenders for the next disease to be eradicated? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Does an Operating System use the CPU cache? If yes, by what amount on average? Posted: 20 Apr 2020 03:03 AM PDT I was wondering if an OS such as Windows uses the cache normally and how would that influence cache benchmarks (measuring performance of something) which usually assume that the cache is being utilized only by the process being benchmarked. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 08:34 PM PDT According to the wikipedia page on the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko, the amount of Polonium in his body was pretty low (Although, of course, any amount of Polonium is much too much), and it took him three weeks to die:
Having read about Litvinenko, I was curious about what would happen if someone was made to ingest a larger dose of Polonium (Or another strong alpha emitter). According to the wikipedia page on Polonium, a one gram sample of Po 210 produces 140 watts of power, so it seems like the human body should be able to 'sustain' a much higher amount than Litvinenko swallowed without the heat destroying the body before the radiation kills you. So... what's the chain of events that leads to death? Reading up on Acute Radiation Syndrome, all the information talks about radiation suffered from external sources, mostly the victims of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. But what about someone dying from a strong alpha emitter inside the body? Which parts of the human body shut down, and what ultimately kills you first when alpha radiation tears you apart from inside? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why do some superheavy elements have a group while others don't? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:09 PM PDT In some periodic tables like this, Copernicium and Flerovium are classified as a transition metal and a post-transition metal respectively, while other elements beside them are still considered "unknown". Why are these 2 elements in a group while others aren't? What about them confirms that they are in those groups? Why can't we just put all the "unknown" elements into groups which they supposedly belong to? [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Is entropy of formation always positive? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 05:48 PM PDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Why isn't ELISA or other serological tests being used to diagnose sars cov 2? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 10:29 AM PDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vaccine clinical trials - Are mRNA vaccines (e.g. Moderna's) slower to develop? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:20 AM PDT Looking at this table (copied below), I am noticing that the mRNA vaccine from Moderna for COVID-19 is still in Phase I, whereas other vaccines that started in Phase I at around the same time, are already in Phase II. From a statistical standpoint, is this difference in progress known to be attributable to the nature of mRNA vaccines in general? (and if so why?) The alternative would be that it's more attributable to random variation that would be vaccine-type agnostic.
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| Posted: 19 Apr 2020 07:44 AM PDT Also is the strong force responsible for supernovas? thanks. [link] [comments]  | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| How do wet dreams cause ejaculation without physical stimulation? Posted: 19 Apr 2020 06:46 AM PDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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