You don’t need to touch a tick for it find you, a new study suggests. The blood-sucking parasites may be able to catapult themselves from vegetation to their hosts thanks to static electricity.
Mammals, birds and reptiles carry considerable electrostatic charges — equivalent to voltages of hundreds to tens of thousands of volts. And ticks seem to respond to that. Tick nymphs brought close to various objects charged to voltages encountered in nature frequently whoosh across the gap to land
A deep water robot sub has reached the wreck of the Titanic on the Atlantic floor – and another is descending the 12,500ft of ocean fast – just minutes before the missing Titanic submersible is predicted to run out of oxygen.
The vanished vessel, Titan, lost communication with tour operators on Sunday while about 435 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland, during a voyage to the Titanic off the coast of Canada. The last ‘ping’ of its homing device was
Elon Musk’s $44billion (£38bn) takeover of Twitter was finally confirmed last week, and the new CEO has wasted no time making changes to the popular platform.
Today, 3,700 of Twitter’s staff around the world are being culled, with furious union bosses describing Musk’s mass sackings as a ‘digital P&O’ situation.
Musk has also made his intentions clear for a $8/month fee for ‘Blue Tick’ verification, as well as an open source algorithm and an Edit button.
In addition, the billionaire
A few months ago, Candice Matthis and Debbie Nichols sat down with their husbands to have some bacon. It was an unremarkable scene, except for two details.
First, there were the EpiPens, which Matthis and Nichols both had ready in case of emergency. The two women can’t eat red meat, not after they were each diagnosed with a dangerous red-meat allergy that develops, oddly enough, after tick bites. They had bonded as friends over their strange shared fate, where a
