Tag: Electrical
Flowers receive and transmit electrical signals from pollinators
Flowering plants may have a secret power for knowing when to lure pollinators.
They could act as antennas for bees’ electrical signals and transmit those signals through the soil, biophysicist Daniel Robert reported March 6 in Minneapolis at the American Physical Society meeting. The finding offers a possible clue to how floral neighbors share information about when to produce nectar, saving energy for when pollination looks promising.
If a bee’s flapping wings trigger even a small voltage difference in plants,
Electrical brain implants may help patients with severe brain injuries
For people with traumatic brain injuries, cognitive functions like memory, attention and mood regulation can become exceedingly difficult. But “there is no therapy for this kind of problem, even though it’s so prevalent,” says Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City.
Now, in a small study of individuals who have suffered moderate to severe brain injury, five patients scored better on a test of attention and information processing after having electrodes surgically implanted into
Electrical prostate cancer fix could be offered to more men to destroy tumours as NHS watchdog relaxes rules
How many people does it kill?
More than 11,800 men a year – or one every 45 minutes – are killed by the disease in Britain, compared with about 11,400 women dying of breast cancer.
It means prostate cancer is behind only lung and bowel in terms of how many people it kills in Britain.
In the US, the disease kills 26,000 men each year.
Despite this, it receives less than half the research funding of breast cancer and treatments
Electrical bacteria may help clean oil spills and curb emissions
The small motorboat anchors in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay. Shrieks of wintering birds assault the vessel’s five crew members, all clad in bright orange flotation suits. One of the crew slowly pulls a rope out of the water to retrieve a plastic tube, about the length of a person’s arm and filled with mud from the bottom of the bay. As the tube is hauled on board, the stench of rotten eggs fills the air.
“Chesapeake Bay mud
Rezension zu “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain”: The Cat’s Meow
“Warum Katzen?” Diese unschuldige Frage kommt mitten in „The Electrical Life of Louis Wain“ und schwebt wie ein verschmitztes Lächeln darüber. Für einige von uns kann die einzige Antwort auf diese Frage natürlich sein: „Warum nicht?“ Die Antwort war für den echten Wain viel komplizierter, einen britischen Künstler, der in den 1880er Jahren für seine unverwechselbaren, verspielten Katzenzeichnungen bekannt wurde; sein Ruhm trug dazu bei, die nationale Wertschätzung für den Felis catus zu vertiefen.
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