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August 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 1

1. Tsunamis on the "wrong" side of a landmass

August 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 2

1. Sun's power per cubic meter
2. Species with clones

August 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 3

1. philosophy and the planets
2. Head-on crash tests
3. A mistake in how our article stress energy tensor defines the first component of the tensor.

August 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 4

1. Black hole shape

August 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 5

1. Electricity in rockets

August 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 6

1. Planetary Alignment question.

August 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 7

1. Metric prefixes

August 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 8

1. How does a chief ray not get deflected when passing through a lens?

August 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 9

1. W boson
2. Perforated rock

August 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 10

1. When did the term "science" begin to replace "natural philosophy"?

August 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 12

1. What is this species of bean?

August 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 13

1. How to start making cellular automata

August 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 14

1. Why wasn't snow always visible on analogue TV?

August 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 15

1. pregnancies

August 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 17

1. flocking and threshold

August 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 19

1. Is the speed of light constant, when measured by a remote inertial observer, who non-locally measures a photon traveling a long way in a curved vacuum?

August 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 26

1. Pharmacology

August 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2025 August 27

1. Lorentz factor derivarion