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Sunday, January 27, 2019

When using sunscreen, can our body produce Vitamin D?

When using sunscreen, can our body produce Vitamin D?


When using sunscreen, can our body produce Vitamin D?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 08:55 PM PST

Given that Hawking radiation intensity increases exponentially as the mass of a black hole decreases, how does a black hole "gradually" form out of normal matter collapsing?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 11:00 PM PST

If a neutron star, or equivalent, is collapsing as it has enough mass to overcome the strong nuclear interaction, how would it become a black hole? As soon as some matter from the core collapses within the Schwarzchild radius, wouldn't it evaporate extremely quickly (or explode) due to massive Hawking radiation? For example this calculator (http://xaonon.dyndns.org/hawking/) suggests that the first 1 micro-gram of the black hole will evaporate in less than 1 unit of Plank time. Does the rest of the collapsing matter need to supply the micro black hole with more matter/energy than is lost due the radiation? Is it even relativistically possible for it to collapse fast enough to do that? Even if so, would it be possible for it to fail (due to angular velocity for example), and if it fails would the neutron star potentially blow up instead of collapsing?

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why DM type 2 affect kidneys and eyes more than other organs and cause diabetic retinopathy , nephropathy?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 06:30 AM PST

Why is urine a steady stream but semen is released in pumps?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 07:07 PM PST

What causes the opposite effects of size<-->speed in gel-electrophoresis and size exclusion chromatography?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 06:52 AM PST

So i tried answering this with a google search but i didn't really find an answer that compares the two methods in regards to the aspect i'm confused by:

So as far as i understand it, both separation methods use a porous gel to separate molecules by their size.

The explanation for the SEC that i found is, that larger molecules cannot fit into as many pores so they barely interact with the gel and pass through it faster through the paths that they can fit through. (So basically there are less "useless detours" that lead in a direction lateral to the traveling direction/ spread out the molecules and increase its interaction with the gel)

The explanation for the gel electrophoresis says, that the larger molecules will have problems traversing through the pores because they won't fit through most of them so it takes them considerably longer to find random paths through the gel. (So there are also fewer "good" paths that allow large molecules to pass through the gel in the intended travelling direction)

Both explanations sounded intuitive until i read them at the same time. Why does the effect that slows down larger molecules during electrophoresis not also affect them during SEC and vice-versa (why don't they pass faster during gel electrophoresis).

I think my problem/misunderstanding is kinda linked to understanding the key difference between what they refer to as "interparticle volume" and the "pores" in the SEC. In the end it sounds to me like you have a gel/solid with tiny "tunnels" inside of them through which the molecules can traverse. Why does it matter if these tunnels are

A) part of the small gel-beads/porous particles themselves

or

B)Between individual beads/porous particles

Also i'm a little bit confused by how some explanations use the word "interaction". Because some of them use it as chemical/electrical interaction and say that "the analyte must not interact with the stationary phase" in the SEC so there is a separation solely by size yet sometimes "interaction" was used in a way that to me sounded more like its ability to diffuse and spread out into the pores.

Thanks in advance for any input that might help understand these processes a little more and have a nice day.

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If earth's gravity lessens depending on how far you get from the surface of earth, even though its not by much, would that mean that the closer you get to the core the greater the force of gravity? If so, would that mean it would be theoretically possible to do some Goku/Vegeta gravity training?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 08:16 PM PST

How much do children's foreign language shows like Dora The Explorer actually help a viewer learn another language?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 05:24 AM PST

Do the senses of smell, taste, and touch fade with time like hearing and sight?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 04:50 AM PST

Are monoclonal antibodies more effective than small molecule drugs?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 04:10 AM PST

Why or why not?

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Instead of making a particle accelerator longer, why don't we make the particle go around it more?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 08:36 PM PST

Since length is a limiting factor in the amount of energy that can be given to a particle, why can't we send a particle around the LHC until it has enough energy to test what we want?

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What do we know about mating in non-avian dinosaurs?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 04:05 AM PST

What do we know about non-avian dinosaurs and mating? Do we have fossils of mating dinosaurs? And especially how did sauropods mate and do we see traces on the bones?

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Is the DNA bomb from Call of Duty theoretically possible?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 12:10 AM PST

Is it theoretically possible to create a bomb or even a pathological agent that targets a specific race of individuals but completely leaves alone anyone else? Are there real life examples of diseases that only affects certain group of communities but is completely harmless in others?

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Why are noble gases so stable?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 09:54 PM PST

I've been studying Chemical bonding and understand that most atoms tend to want to get a fully filled valence shell of electrons. What I don't understand is why. How does having a fully filled energy level/shell (even if we're just talking about the main group elements here) give you stability? Does it have to do with something with the Hund's rule and pairing of electron spins? Even if it does, why is it that Beryllium, which has a fully filled 2s orbital, and essentially doesn't even have any p electrons or p orbitals yet, not stable? What makes a fully filled p subshell/orbital so stable?

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Can kitchen knives with single-bevel designs really achieve stronger, sharper and thinner edges compared to knives with double-bevel designs?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 03:44 AM PST

Note: I'm simplifying.

German and french knives are "flat ground" with a symmetrical double bevel edge, most japanese knives are "chisel ground" with a single bevel edge instead. Visual representation here.

Knife sellers claim that chisel ground knives can achieve sharper, thinner and stronger edges compared to flat ground knives and browsing forums that seems to be the general opinion.

Given the alloy used in the blade is constant, would you say the claim holds?

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Will Saccharomyces Ferment increase the AhR activity of Pityrosporum Folliculitis?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 03:26 AM PST

Galactomyces ferment has shown to increase the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) capacity of Pityrosporum folliculitis aka Malassezia Folliculitis. The afore yeast ferment is also a potent activator of AhR, as it induced the nuclear translocation of AhR and subsequent CYP1A1 upregulation.

However, does the same applies for Saccharomyces ferment and its respective filtrates and subjugated filtrates? Saccaromyces is a different but similar genus of fungi compared to Galactomyces. On the other hand, lactobacillus, bifidobacterium, lactococcus and various other lactic-acid producing bacteria is said to have no effect on the AhR capacity of Pityrosporum folliculitis.

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What happens to the Cochlear fluid of the astronauts?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 08:55 AM PST

Thought about this last night, couldn't find an answer online. So what happens to Cochlear fluid in low-g environments? How do Astronauts not get violently sick all the time?

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What is the maximum temperature you could raise waters boiling point to?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 07:08 PM PST

Since waters boiling point depends on how much pressure it's under, what is the maximum boiling point water can be raised too?

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How do you differentiate between the histology of pyelonephritis and coagulative necrosis of kidney?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 01:55 AM PST

I always get confused between the histology of pyelonephritis of kidney and coagulative necrosis of kidney in the histology slide.

I realize that pyelonephritis is a form of liquefactive necrosis, but how can you differentiate between the two in the histology slide? They both look extremely similar and they both have neutrophil infiltrate.

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Can Ammonia be used to substitute chloride ion ligands in aqueous copper(II) chloride in a ligand substitution?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 01:35 AM PST

Title explain everything. I am planning to do a complexometric titration using EDTA to determine the amount of copper(II) ions in an aqueous solution, and was wondering if the above could happen since the pH of the solution must be alkaline for the titration to occur. Many thanks!

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Since our immunity strengthens based on experience, would that mean that an E. Coli infection give you immunity to that certain strain of E. Coli in the future?

Posted: 27 Jan 2019 01:08 AM PST

How does popcorn 'pop'?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 02:17 PM PST

How do pulsed neutron sources work and when are they utilized?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 02:54 PM PST

I know that the pulsed sources have been used in particle accelerators, but don't most of them use proton beams?

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Saturday, January 26, 2019

Measles is thought to 'reset' the immune system's memory. Do victims need to re-get childhood vaccinations, e.g. chickenpox? And if we could control it, is there some good purpose to which medical science could put this 'ability' of the measles virus?

Measles is thought to 'reset' the immune system's memory. Do victims need to re-get childhood vaccinations, e.g. chickenpox? And if we could control it, is there some good purpose to which medical science could put this 'ability' of the measles virus?


Measles is thought to 'reset' the immune system's memory. Do victims need to re-get childhood vaccinations, e.g. chickenpox? And if we could control it, is there some good purpose to which medical science could put this 'ability' of the measles virus?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 05:06 AM PST

Measles resets the immune system

Don't bone marrow patients go through chemo to suppress or wipe our their immune system to reduce the chance of rejection of the donor marrow? Seems like a virus that does the same thing, if it could be less . .. virulent, might be a way around that horrible process. Just throwing out ideas.

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Discoveries at the LHC besides the Higgs boson?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 04:12 AM PST

I feel like 10 years ago every scientist said that the LHC would revolutionize our view of the universe, yet the only major discovery in the mainstream news was the Higgs boson.

Are there any more major discoveries that may shape our view of the universe or were the expectations too big and there were no huge, interesting discoveries?

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In the Electron Transport Chain, do the complexes gain their energy to pump out protons, from the creation of water in the IV-komplex or from the high energy state of the electron in NADH?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 05:15 AM PST

Before fusion was understood, how did astronomers explain how stars worked?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 11:24 AM PST

I am mostly talking about the last few hundred years, once it was accepted fact that the stars weren't just lights on a giant moving sphere.

Were there theories as to what caused the sun and other stars to shine? We now understand that fusion is the primary method of energy production, but it wasn't known until the 20th century.

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Are black holes ideal black bodies?

Posted: 26 Jan 2019 03:50 AM PST

A blac body absorbs and emits all radiation or energy incident on it.

A Black hole can absorb everything, but nothing gets emmited out of it, except Hawking Radiation. So can Black holes be termed as ideal black bodies?

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In the winter of 1862, the northern lights appeared over the battlefield in Fredericksburg, VA, USA. How rare is this phenomenon? Would it happen now-a-days, or not because of light pollution?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:24 PM PST

At what temperature will an object begin to emit UV radiation/waves?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 07:43 PM PST

How is it possible to see light from the beginning of time?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 11:56 AM PST

Light travels at a speed making us see things that are far away back in time. But since no object can travel faster than light, how can earth beats the light to here from the beginning of time for almost 14 billion years?

Here is the article I got this question from.

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In the distant future, could the cosmic microwave background be made visible by accelerating an detector to relativistic speeds?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 09:08 AM PST

I have read that the CMB will redshift to invisibility in the distant future. Could the use of near light speed be used to blue shift it back to visibility?

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Can You Contain a Anti-proton plasma Using Normal Matter?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 10:07 AM PST

Since anti-protons do not annihilate positrons, could a negatively charged plasma of antiprotons be held inside a container normal matter? The plasma would be repelled by the electron shell of the normal atoms.

Since AM is stored in magnetic penrose traps in the real world, I assume this is incorrect, but why?

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Why is there an emphasis on a closed loop to Faraday's law?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 07:29 AM PST

I don't understand why Faraday's law is only valid when there is a loop, a closed one in fact.

I understand it does not matter if the loop consists of a conductor or free space.

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Friday, January 25, 2019

exercise increases growth hormone in the blood stream. If this is true, does that mean people who exercised more often in their formative years are taller?

exercise increases growth hormone in the blood stream. If this is true, does that mean people who exercised more often in their formative years are taller?


exercise increases growth hormone in the blood stream. If this is true, does that mean people who exercised more often in their formative years are taller?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:43 AM PST

I remember reading growth hormone production increases after exercise. Not sure if this influences anything other than recovery I guess. But do kids/teens who exercise during periods of growth end up taller than kids/teens who do not?

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If inflamation is a response of our immune system, why do we suppress it? Isn't it like telling our immune system to take it down a notch?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 09:33 AM PST

How is anesthesia managed when an unconscious/comatose patient needs emergency surgery?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 06:26 AM PST

How do anesthesiologists work when an unconscious patient is brought to the ER and needs emergency surgery? Do they give the same dose of the same molecules as if the patient were conscious, or is it too dangerous if the patient is already unresponsive?

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Nothing can go faster than light. But light moves slower when not in a vacuum. Can can something travel faster than light when it's not in a vacuum?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 07:17 AM PST

Light in a vacuum moves at the fastest speed possible, which is sometimes referred to as c. Nothing can move as fast a c. But when light travels through a substance like air, glass, or water, it moves slightly slower than c. So is it possible for something to move faster through one of those substances than light can? And if so, what would it look like? Would it create a "visual boom" similar to a sonic boom when something goes faster than sound?

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In the early stages of the Big Bang (Quark-lepton era) why was there slightly more matter than antimatter?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:20 AM PST

Why does it take photons thousands of years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 10:20 PM PST

Since it only takes a bit over 8 minutes for light to reach Earth from the Sun, I cannot comprehend why it takes such a long time to go from the core to the surface? Photons do not have a mass and they travel at the speed of light. Is it simply because of the size of the Sun?

Edit: thank you all for providing such detailed replies. I do have a follow up question tho. Is the Random Walk also the reason for why Sun is white when seen in vacuum?

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Is there a limit to how far electricity can arc?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:10 AM PST

Apologies if this is the wrong flair. Not really sure where is most appropriate.

I saw this was asked a few months ago but it only covered a sort of formula for distance. Does the distance it can arc have a cap or could theoretically we pump enough juice to jump a gap planets wide in an empty region of space?

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Where do light or photons come from?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 11:07 PM PST

It's a question that I never thought about, but I can't reason out where exactly it comes from. In a circuit, for instance, I know that there are particles like atoms in the filament, and there is the movement of electrons which moves in opposition to the electric charge. I know that light is a form of energy, so electric energy is turned into light energy (primarily), but I'm confused with where exactly do the photons come from? Where do these EM waves suddenly come from? There is no particle that acts as a stationary 'photon' in a circuit.

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Hello science! Why is it that nitrogen and oxygen don't separate in the atmosphere?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 07:48 AM PST

Liquids of different densities separate, liquids are fluids, air is a fluid. Hydrogen escapes the atmosphere rapidly, how come oxygen stays? It's less dense than nitrogen.

I can imagine it's because of air movement and constant mixing. If so, why don't we all die when the weather is nice and quiet?

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How is text displayed on oscilloscopes ?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 06:00 AM PST

How is text (+ arrows and axes) displayed on oscilloscopes' screens? Are the vertical panels switching between multiple channels ? If that's the case then there should be dozens of channels.🤔

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Do scientists believe that a carbon tax would reduce the ecological impacts of climate change?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 03:53 AM PST

I'm just about to start my economics undergrad, in the mean time before I start, I am trying to complete microeconomics and macroeconomics textbooks by Greg Mankiw, just to give you some idea of where I am with my knowledge (not very much as you can see).

I haven't read much into the literature regarding climate change apart from a few articles (I plan to read more, it really interests me how economics could help to reduce the effects of climate change) and I just got finished reading about externalities and the solutions proposed by economists to deal with climate change (such as command and control regulation, carbon tax and tradable pollution permits).

The other day I got called ecologically illiterate for believing that climate change (to be fair, I called them economically illiterate so it was probably warranted, I regret the remarks made but debate can get heated sometimes) could be solved by a simple tax proposed and agreed upon by every single economist in the world, even the most conservative ones. So my question is, would a carbon tax be sufficient enough to reduce the ecological impacts of climate change through incentivising firms and consumers to reduce their economic activities that omit co2 or are we too far gone?

(I am giving this the Earth Sciences tag because I am more concerned with whether or not the co2 reduction from a carbon tax would be able to reduce or reverse the ecological impacts of climate change, not the efficiency of the tax. If I was concerned about that, I would of made a post on /r/AskEconomics.)

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Does the keratin in feathers react to Biuret? Why/Why not?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:14 AM PST

During a food test I failed to get a reaction between biuret and feathers, so I'm wondering if biuret reacts to keratin like it does to other proteins.

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How do we know what chemicals reside on other planets from just viewing them?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 07:35 AM PST

One sometimes hears that a planet may have rain that consists of diamonds, or that a planet does not have breathable air etc. made up of some poisonous gas.. how is this determined by astrophysicists?

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Does Earth's atmosphere expand as a consequence of climate change?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 02:18 AM PST

When climate change is discussed a increase in mean atmospheric temperature is often mentioned. As we know, gasses expand with increased temperature. Does this mean that the total volume of Earth's atmosphere also increases?

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Do Noble Gases make chemical compounds like other elements do?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 04:11 AM PST

The title says it.Do Noble Gases make chemical compounds like Hydrogen does with e.g. Oxygen (H2O,H2O2 etc.). Polar covalent bond is counting (e.g. He2 Fr2 Xe2).

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How did the hallelujah mountains in china form?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 08:13 AM PST

The mountains inspired the floating montains in the movie avatar. The actual montains are also beautiful. They're quartz-sandstone pillars according to the wiki. I don't understand how they formed though. Anyone know or have ideas?

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What does it mean to have a viscous blood?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 04:28 AM PST

How do we know there was one super continent and what caused it to drift apart?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 06:11 PM PST

Is real time-PCR more accurate than MALDI-TOF when analysing Microbiology samples?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 06:11 AM PST

From my research I have found contrasting evidence of the efficacy of MALDI-TOF whereas, most of the research I've done on PCR seems to be consistent. This leads me to believe that PCR would be more accurate but I'm am still unsure. Could anyone who has performed these tests give me their opinions on which technique is more accurate?

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If the sun is constantly losing tons of mass, why do the orbits of the solar system remain relatively unchanged?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 09:42 AM PST

Does salt change the surface tension of water?

Posted: 24 Jan 2019 03:20 PM PST

Sea water Vs. spring water

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What is the difference between prenatal, in utero, and intrauterine development?

Posted: 25 Jan 2019 05:19 AM PST

I suspect there is no difference but I may be wrong. I am writing a PhD proposal and I don't want to sound silly if I conflate them.

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