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Sunday, February 21, 2021

How did sinovac develop an inactivated vaccine faster than the the new rna vaccines?

How did sinovac develop an inactivated vaccine faster than the the new rna vaccines?


How did sinovac develop an inactivated vaccine faster than the the new rna vaccines?

Posted: 21 Feb 2021 02:37 AM PST

If one of the main advantages of rna/vector vaccines is faster rollout how did sinovac develop a traditional inactivated vaccine faster or at least almost the same rate?

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Does the way in which the milk teeth are removed from the mouth affect the way in reach the adult teeth develop?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:27 PM PST

Why is it hard to pull a magnet off a metal surface but so effortless to slide it across the surface?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 06:56 PM PST

Playing with my name tag and it got stuck to my pen holder. I wasn't able to pull it off but it easily slid off. I don't get why a magnet doesn't pull back to the original position when sliding.

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Will the Bird Flu in Russia become another pandemic?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 02:35 PM PST

https://globalnews.ca/news/7652671/russia-bird-flu/

Could this become another, but even worse, pandemic? (H5N8 bird flu)

Some people on r/worldnews seem to think this will be really bad.

I know there's not much information known, but is there a possibility that this could be bad?

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What makes a virus more virulent?

Posted: 21 Feb 2021 06:04 AM PST

It's commonly been explained to me that "the virus itself does not harm you, your body's immune response is what causes the actual harm to your body." But that doesn't strike me as correct. Some viruses are obviously more harmful than others. Is it really just "our body's reaction" to certain viruses that hurts us? Or is there actually something in the virus's genetic code that makes them more virulent and harmful.

Also can the virus cause damage just by cell replication and cell death it directly causes? Isn't this destroying tissues and causing direct physical harm?

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How are we testing for SARS-CoV2 mutations? Do all test we do include testing for mutations?

Posted: 21 Feb 2021 06:58 AM PST

How exactly are such small particles (I.e. API’s in vaccine/medication production) handled and studied in labs? Like, how are they physically manipulated/controlled so that they could be isolated and studied on such a microscopic scale?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:56 PM PST

Why are there no “Great lakes” in Europe?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 12:29 PM PST

As I understand, the Great Lakes were formed after the last Ice Age by ice. Northern Europe and Siberia both were under ice on the same glaciation, but why are there no great lakes in Eurasia? Did they get filled somehow or did they never exist at all?

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Why is there such a high disparity between the number of first and second doses for the COVID-vaccine in the UK?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 08:10 PM PST

I was under the impression you have to get your second shot about 14 days after the first round of vaccination.

According to the UK governments' website the number of first doses administered is about 17 million while only about 0.6 million people have gotten their second dose.

What's up with that? Are these 17 million people still immunized?

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How does the astrazeneca vaccine work?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 12:50 PM PST

So I'm going to be taking the vaccine tomorrow and would like to know how this vaccine works, I've read online that the delivery method is through a non-replicating adenovirus which is found in a type of virus found in monkeys. As this is the first vaccine using this technology I'd like to know more about this vaccine as I'm wondering if there's any complications that can arise. For instant, could it be possible that in the future that people who took the vaccine months after still possess the DNA that was injected into them.

Another thing, how does the injected cell die? Does it die on it own or dies the immune system target and kill the vaccinated cell that manufactures the spike protein? If this is the case then it would suggest that this vaccine is completely safe to be administered right? that the vaccine can't potentially let's say keep duplicating the host cell? I've been reading posts that suggest that this vaccine can increase cancer risks or potentially cause long term problems but I'd like to understand the vaccine first and understand how it works. I'll be taking the vaccine regardless but I want to put these questions to rest.

Further questions: if the cells divide will the spike protein DNA be passed to the daughter cell?

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can a 0% mortality virus or bacteria exist?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 11:39 AM PST

Hi, I know our body is full of bacterias, but do you think if a 0% mortality virus or bacteria woyld appear and this virus or bacteria would be highly contagious, we would be able to detect it. Would it be actually possible?

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Can having one virus (such as herpes, for example) make you immune from another virus (such as Covid-19)?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 11:06 AM PST

How will Perseverance attain purchase for lift off when Mars has no air?

Posted: 21 Feb 2021 04:20 AM PST

When did stars like our sun start to form in the universe?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:37 PM PST

How many infections/deaths can be caused by a single super-spreader covid event?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 06:58 PM PST

Is there any sort of Mathematica equation to describe how how many deaths or infections were caused by a single event? For example, a 25 person party held last November would have caused how many deaths?

Thanks!

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Can someone plainly explain how claims that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines can promote prions be refuted?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:24 AM PST

While on the topic, what about claims that it can cause pathogenic priming or immune enhancement? I believe they cited older and controversial papers, but I still want to understand the science behind why they are not popular or taken serious. Here is the source that was cited https://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-1503.pdf

Some context: I am hoping for the answers to help others who are scared too, as I am absolutely NOT anti vax but just worried.

I did the thing you're not meant to do and dive into an online rabbit hole right after getting my first vaccine. I'm currently in a country where the Pfizer jab is showing robust data that it is working well, but I can't stop coming across those claims online that scare me and my family (even though I'm trying to remain rational and to follow what most experts are saying). Thanks!

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Why did variolation causes lower mortality rate than natural small pox infection ?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 11:31 PM PST

In either case the virus is infectious and not attenuated or modified. However very simple practice of variolation reduced the mortality rate to around 2% from 25% in natural infection.

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Saturday, February 20, 2021

Will babies who have experienced their first year of life within the pandemic see long term immune system effects?

Will babies who have experienced their first year of life within the pandemic see long term immune system effects?


Will babies who have experienced their first year of life within the pandemic see long term immune system effects?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 08:13 AM PST

How important is the first year for immune system development and "exposure to germs"? Once this child begins post-pandemic activities/daycare/generally higher exposure to the world, will their immune system eventually strengthen and catch up? Will they experience a lot of illness for a while?

Imagining an example of an infant born last Spring who has essentially been in quarantine for 9+ months with little to no socialization with other children, adults, playgrounds, daycare, the outside world.

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Was the "seasonal flu" a phenomenon before the 1918 Flu Pandemic?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 12:48 PM PST

I was reading an article that casually dropped this paragraph:

If we are lucky, year over year, SARS-CoV-2 will evolve to cause milder disease than it has these past two years. That would be consistent with the virus that spread in 1918, which became the seasonal flu. It never again produced the same level of mortality as it did during its first two years, but the virus continues to evolve and kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. Most of us have come to accept this as inevitable.

Were seasonal flus not a thing prior to 1918? Did urban dwellers and other people in 1910, 1850, 1600 not head into winter half-expecting to catch the flu?

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Is baby weight at birth indicative of later frame size as an adult?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:05 AM PST

If one baby is heavier than the other at birth but still within the normal range, does that mean that baby will become a bigger framed/boned adult later? I found information that longer babies do become taller adults, but nothing about weight differences in the normal range (not talking about underweight babies).

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Can dolphins and whales sense depth, and do they know when they've gone too deep?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 06:30 AM PST

Human divers can feel a squeeze as they dive deeper, but once they equalize, they don't really feel the depth. Oxygen gets toxic when it's too concentrated (gasses compress at depths and this would concentrate any oxygen a mammal brings down). I assume aquatic mammals would die if they went down too far, much like a human divers would. Can they tell when they've gone too far, or does it just not happen because they would run out of air before they got down there? Can they get decompression sickness?

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Why is the microstrain of Rutile smaller than Anatase? [Material Science]

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 06:33 AM PST

Could factors such as crystal structure and stability attribute to such observation?

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Why does pulsatile flow depend on an energy gradient, not a pressure gradient?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 07:29 AM PST

I don't get how this isn't a pressure gradient. Is it that that capillaries are truly so narrow it makes more sense to think of it as particle movement rather than fluid dynamics?

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Can Pi stacking occur when two aromatic rings are not parallel?

Posted: 20 Feb 2021 06:20 AM PST

Can Pi stacking occur when two aromatic rings such as tyrosine are in a non parallel confirmation? With one being planar and the other at a slight angle of approx 45 degrees in relation to the top aromatic ring? Both rings have nothing between them and the aromatic rings still are within the same vertical plane

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What stops lesions in the bowel (such as from a polyp removal) from getting infected?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:51 PM PST

I was watching some videos of colonoscopies and polyp removal, where gastroenterologists remove polyps (growths in the intestines) from the walls of the colon using a snare - pretty cool stuff! Once these polyps had been removed, there was what looked like an open wound bleeding into the colon. The colon is, naturally, going to fill up with feces and other nastiness at some point soon. If an open wound of the skin gets in contact with feces, I imagine it's pretty likely to get infected. Why doesn't this happen when the bowel wall is breached in this fashion? What stops bacteria from getting into the circulation and causing something like sepsis? Appreciate any answers on this, thanks!

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Relationship between BCS theory, flux pinning, Meissner effect and quantum locking for superconductors?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:04 PM PST

Hi! I'd just like some clarification on some phenomena involved. So the Meissner effect and quantum locking explain why levitation occurs as a superconductor is cooled below its critical temp. However, BCS theory and flux pinning explain why a superconducting material possesses its superconducting abilities? Also, when talking about BCS and flux pinning do I assume it's only applicable when the superconductor is in its cold state? Thanks!

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How does Ingenuity (The Mars Helicopter) fly on Mars with such a thin atmosphere?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 05:44 PM PST

Relative to earth does it require a more significant RPM to achieve flight?

How similar is the viscosity of the air on Mars to earth?

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What are the danger zones demographically with increased chance of successful suicide?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 10:16 PM PST

I remember hearing somewhere that men with bipolar in their late 40's, early 50's are very at risk, but i cant quite remember exactly.

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How do allergy shots work?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 06:04 PM PST

How do allergy shots differ from just being exposed to the allergen? I've read that the shots give a tiny dose of the allergen, not enough to cause a full blown reaction, but enough to gradually desensitize the body to it. But if I'm already being bombarded with the allergen, say cat dander and dust mites, then what good does it do to sprinkle a little extra allergen on top in the form of a shot?

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Do cats pass the mirror test?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 09:03 PM PST

I was watching this video of cats responding to videos of their owners using a cat filter:

https://youtu.be/Jto2peSOLac

It seems to me that they react with shock and turn to their owners to see if they have really transformed into a cat or not. I found this interesting because I thought cats fail the mirror test:

https://www.hillspet.com/cat-care/behavior-appearance/do-cats-understand-mirrors

Can anyone explain the cats reaction in a way that doesn't require them to understand they are essentially looking into a mirror of sorts?

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Why is gas burn not even/laminar, but instead bumpy?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:17 PM PST

Like this found here

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How does the Lander Vision System determine a safe landing spot?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 02:00 PM PST

What is the point of Brillouin Zones?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 07:05 AM PST

I am watching this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hWayXcwFww

Why do we want the reciprocal lattice points to be in the first Brillouin Zone? Are we trying to capture the entire response, or are we trying to only capture parts of it as in its entirety it would be too much data to handle?

Might be stupid questions but I wanna try and understand this.

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Why are the functions of brain regions so consistent?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 05:31 PM PST

In my understanding, the brain can be divided into regions with different cellular structures. Are those structures what determine the function of that region? Why are the locations consistent enough to map functions to locations? Are there some people with 'misplaced' brain regions?

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Why is it that when we see people wearing masks it is easier to tell who they are with a mask on the bottom half of their face than on the top half?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 04:23 PM PST

E.g why is it easier to recognise someone when they are wearing masks because of COVID I can tell who it is but if I was to look at photos taken in the army, where they put black lines over their eyes, I can't recognise the person?

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Why is vitamin d required for calcium transport?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 03:05 PM PST

I'd like to get detailed mechanisms of actions. For example in the gut it increases absorption, but through what pathways? Similarly, how does it help bind calcium into the bone matrix? I'd like to get as technical of an explanation as possible.

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Why do things react in the first place?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 03:01 PM PST

Friday, February 19, 2021

How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?

How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?


How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 04:02 PM PST

Why are physicists searching for magnetic monopoles?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 03:54 AM PST

I'm an undergraduate physics student and I've heard that the discovery of magnetic monopoles could be really important for the simplification of essential equations in theories like supersymmetry. My understanding of the electromagnetic force is that magnetic fields are generated by aligned spins of charged particles. If this is true, then anything that generates a magnetic field must be polar. So why do physicists have reason to believe that magnetic monopoles exist?

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Why do we use gold instead of silver?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:08 AM PST

Today I found out that silver conducts electricity better than gold (wikipedia).

Since gold is also so much more expensive as silver, Why do we use gold in almost all our electronics instead of the apparently superior silver?

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Does high Platelet count raise change or affect d-dimer results in blood test?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 07:32 AM PST

Long story short I have a d-dimer blood test in a few days and mildly injured my ankle (sledding with nephews). I know the purpose of the test to look for any clotting issues in my blood. From my understanding platelets help clotting and increase production during injury. I am concerned that the test will be thrown off due to my recent injury but I cannot find anything online the correlates both platelets and d-dimer. I would appreciate any help. Thanks everyone.

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How come there are two planets able to support life in our solar system (counting Mars too, as it theoretically was in the past), when our star is just like any other of its class and this kind of planets are seemingly hard to find alone as far as our spectrometers can measure?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:23 AM PST

Does Covid affect smell AND taste, or is it really just smell?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:48 PM PST

I was born with no sense of smell, and as a result, I can't really taste most things. My friend has covid currently, and is experiencing a loss of smell and taste, and when he described his loss of taste, it sounded very similar to how I taste when I eat food every day. Research seems to only explain how covid may decrease smell, and I have not found anything on how it decreases taste. So is it possible it only affects smell, and as a result, people think their sense of taste is affected as well?

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Why do the little puffs of cloud in a Cloud Chamber seem to have a relatively low velocity? Surely the particle is moving through the chamber at almost the speed of light?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:01 PM PST

Why is the Cardia (oesophagus-stomach opening) named so?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:24 AM PST

I'm curious about the linguistics (?) and the reasoning behind whoever named that region, considering that everything heart-related is "cardiac," but just recently I learned that anything related to the Cardia is also "cardiac".

They both seem to be from the Greek word "kardia" (heart) according to Merriam Webster, so I'm curious if something got lost in translation or if the scientist naming that region just decided to be funny.

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Can I use circular polarizers to make a polarimeter?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:32 AM PST

Hello, I am making a device to measure the angle of rotation of passing polarized light through a substance. I ordered some polarizers off of Amazon but I didn't realize linear and circular polarizers were different. I'm thinking that the polarization has to be linear but I'm not quite sure. If I rotate the lenses together, the light changes but doesn't black out. Help would be appreciated!

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Why do aerosols cans all use flammable gas as the propellant? Why not use an inert gas/normal air?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 01:12 AM PST

Is it known what the exact mechanisms are which allow SSRI’s to help treat anxiety disorders?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:56 AM PST

Just wondering if we've made any progress on the research front on this in the last few years, because as I understood it science was very much in the dark on this despite decades of research and experimentation

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How will the eruption of mount etna in Italy have an effect on air quality and sun rise sun set colors of any?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 12:53 AM PST

At what speed or frequency do human DNA and human cells/atoms move in a person who is sitting still?

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 08:46 PM PST

I was reading a study about the effects of electric stimulation on depression/anxiety and it asserts that human DNA has a 'frequency' between 54 to 78 Gigaherz. What does that mean exactly? How fast the atoms/electrons are moving? Is there some kind of electric frequency that is unique to humans? Are there more studies related to that? I feel like something important could be discovered.

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