Why did we go from a Delta variant of COVID straight to Lambda? What happened to Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, and Kappa? |
- Why did we go from a Delta variant of COVID straight to Lambda? What happened to Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, and Kappa?
- Does fluoride in tap water really have any noticeable effect on houseplants?
- Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology
- What happen when an infected cell replicate itself ?
- Is there an increase in the average IQ of people born after the worldwide ban of leaded gasoline?
- What's stopping continents today from breaking off and forming other continents like it did before? Or is it happening now and we just don't notice it?
- So why does climate change make for more intensive droughts and colder more volatile winters?
- Will getting the flu make it less likely to get COVID-19?
- What limits how much of something you can dissolve into a liquid?
- Using today’s capabilities, would we have discovered the Tunguska Asteroid enough in advance to divert its orbit and prevent it from striking Earth?
- Are Cicada's "songs" triggered by heat or by light?
- Is there a 'tipping point' where the amount of trees logged/burned is so great that the oxygen supply on Earth is threatened? Could anything of that severity happen to plankton & threaten the oxygen that they provide?
- What are spike proteins?
- Which animals have the most complex/robust livers (capable of detoxifying the greatest number of xenobiotics)?
- What is "Channelling" in semiconductor device fabrication and what effect does it have on implantation depth?
- What happens to an insect transported far from home?
- Why do current climatology models end at the year 2100 CE?
- Can Omega-3 supplements increase intelligence?
| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 08:12 AM PDT According to this article there is now a lambda variant of COVID that is impacting people mostly in South America. This of course is coming right in the middle of the Delta variant outbreak in the United States and other places. In the greek alphabet, Delta is the 4th letter and Lambda is the 11th. So what happened to all the letters in between? Are there Epsilon-Kappa variants in other parts of the world that we just havent heard of? If not, why did we skip those letters in our scientific naming scheme for virus variants? [link] [comments]  |
| Does fluoride in tap water really have any noticeable effect on houseplants? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 06:32 PM PDT |
| Ask Anything Wednesday - Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Posted: 11 Aug 2021 07:00 AM PDT Welcome to our weekly feature, Ask Anything Wednesday - this week we are focusing on Economics, Political Science, Linguistics, Anthropology Do you have a question within these topics you weren't sure was worth submitting? Is something a bit too speculative for a typical /r/AskScience post? No question is too big or small for AAW. In this thread you can ask any science-related question! Things like: "What would happen if...", "How will the future...", "If all the rules for 'X' were different...", "Why does my...". Asking Questions: Please post your question as a top-level response to this, and our team of panellists will be here to answer and discuss your questions. The other topic areas will appear in future Ask Anything Wednesdays, so if you have other questions not covered by this weeks theme please either hold on to it until those topics come around, or go and post over in our sister subreddit /r/AskScienceDiscussion , where every day is Ask Anything Wednesday! Off-theme questions in this post will be removed to try and keep the thread a manageable size for both our readers and panellists. Answering Questions: Please only answer a posted question if you are an expert in the field. The full guidelines for posting responses in AskScience can be found here. In short, this is a moderated subreddit, and responses which do not meet our quality guidelines will be removed. Remember, peer reviewed sources are always appreciated, and anecdotes are absolutely not appropriate. In general if your answer begins with 'I think', or 'I've heard', then it's not suitable for /r/AskScience. If you would like to become a member of the AskScience panel, please refer to the information provided here. Past AskAnythingWednesday posts can be found here. Ask away! [link] [comments]  |
| What happen when an infected cell replicate itself ? Posted: 11 Aug 2021 01:42 AM PDT Hi, So what i'd like to know is this, if a cell is infected by a virus or ""infected"" with mRNA from vaccine for example. What would happen if the cell replicate ? Would the new cells contain the virus or mRNA ? I'm thinking about this cause when you do workout you accelerate the replication process (I suppose since cells have to repair the part that you broke in your muscle during the workout). And since the vaccine is injected in the muscle I was questioning myself about that. Like, if it was the case, could it cause chain reaction, cells replicating with the virus again and again ? Maybe it's totally stupid tbh. [link] [comments]  |
| Is there an increase in the average IQ of people born after the worldwide ban of leaded gasoline? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 09:07 AM PDT We know lead hinders brain development, and makes us a little bit slower. Some have argued that leaded gasoline was responsible for reducing the iq of generations of people. It has now been a while since leaded gasoline has been banned worldwide. Do we see any non-negligible difference in levels of intelligence in people before and after the lead ban? (I know IQ is an imperfect measure of intelligence it is just one data point. And I use it for a lack of a better metric) [link] [comments]  |
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| So why does climate change make for more intensive droughts and colder more volatile winters? Posted: 11 Aug 2021 01:04 AM PDT Also whats up the the increase in the ocean pH and why is it such a big deal? I don't really get how this climate emergency conjures all of these different environmental cataclysms. [link] [comments]  |
| Will getting the flu make it less likely to get COVID-19? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 02:11 PM PDT |
| What limits how much of something you can dissolve into a liquid? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 05:56 PM PDT This is essentially a drug dosing question I suppose. What limits how high you can concentrate a liquid? I currently work with 2 different drugs one is dosed at 0.5mg per ml and the other is 5mg per ml. I was wondering if this is just how they dose it? Or if this is essentially the "maximal" amount they can fit per ml [link] [comments]  |
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| Are Cicada's "songs" triggered by heat or by light? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 04:50 PM PDT A friend and I were sitting outside today under an overcast sky. Almost as soon as the clouds parted and the sun came out, the light obviously grew brighter, but it also got warmer. Around the same time the Cicadas (Neotibicen canicularis) began singing, which we hadn't heard since the day before. My friend then asked the question of whether Cicadas are triggered to sing by light or by heat? Or is it the clicking noise of the females? I know the cause (tymbals), and I know the reason (mating), but what is the trigger? Thanks for your help. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 09:00 AM PDT Recent events have left me full of questions and spiralling into thoughts of negative scenarios in the future, but I figured I'd focus on the questions for now so at least I could learn something new(!) So my question is basically in the title. I'm wondering if Earth's oxygen supply would be threatened by deforestation and the increasing number of forest fires, and if anything of that severity could happen to plankton (threatening the planet's other largest source of oxygen). Could a combination of these two problems occur? Thank you for any answers! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 06:12 PM PDT 1) What are spike proteins? 2) Are the spike proteins from the vaccine different than the spike proteins from the Covid virus? 3) Have spike proteins been used as the primary antigen for other vaccines? 4) What common misconceptions do people have about spike proteins? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2021 11:02 AM PDT I've been told both that it causes ions to penetrate too deep due to the existence of "channels" in the crystal structure that offer very little resistance to the penetrating ion. I've also been told that it is a process of ions losing energy as they travel through the substrate which causes them to not go deep enough. so which is it? any good sources would be appreciated [link] [comments]  |
| What happens to an insect transported far from home? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 07:15 AM PDT There have been times when I've been in an airplane and noticed an insect flying around. Assuming that it escapes the plane at its destination, what becomes of it? Does it spend the rest of its life trying to get home? Does it integrate locally? Thanks... [link] [comments]  |
| Why do current climatology models end at the year 2100 CE? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 10:13 AM PDT Also, what would happen (to climate models) after 2100 CE? Not sure if I phrased the question correctly. [link] [comments]  |
| Can Omega-3 supplements increase intelligence? Posted: 10 Aug 2021 08:12 AM PDT |
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