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Raindrops are tiny lightning bolts, and they’re corroding cars, study finds
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In the study, Dr. Elisa Rigosi and co-authors from Lund University and the University of Adelaide used a technique called intracellular recording to measure the electrical responses of individual photoreceptors — the light-sensing cells in an insect’s eye — in four bee species and both sexes of each.
The starting point of the study is a phenomenon called “slide electrification,” which has only been properly quantified in the past few years.
As a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface reveals, rock glaciers can hold a truly stunning amount of ice.
The research “pushes the needle” for psychedelics, which are already being studied for their use in treating conditions such as depression, addiction, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), said Moran Amit, a co-author of the paper and a professor and a neuroscientist at UT MD Anderson, at the same event.
Related: Scientists Discover Ancient Traces of The Oldest Glaciers Ever Found It's a pretty incredible new way to gauge the amount of ice hidden inside rock glaciers around the world, and as the researchers say, it's important we keep refining our measurements of these huge formations.
While it might seem unlikely that dozens of cases of rabies are being missed by doctors each year, that's exactly the scenario that plays out in the case of the infected organ donors, with the causes of their deaths only being discovered tragically late in each instance.
According to researchers from the Pandemic Sciences Max Planck Institute at the University of Oxford, the extremely low count of confirmed human rabies cases in the US each year – just 2.4 cases annually on average from 2000 to 2024 – seems much lower than it should be.
Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) affects about 75 per cent of cancer patients who undergo the treatment to some extent, said Patrick Dougherty, also at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, in a press briefing.
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What's still developing
- Atomic force microscopy of the impact zones found pits several nanometers deep in places deeper than the entire thickness of the Teflon film, meaning the damage ran clean through the coating and into the metal.
- Scientists found that once the coating has been breached, the exposed metal sits in a salty drop with a fresh electrical potential across it.
- The researchers identified the corrosion products on copper by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction.
- According to a new paper published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some of the smallest bees studied have photoreceptors as sharp as those of much larger honeybee drones.
- The researchers compared their results with previously published data on the honeybee.