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Scientists may have found a new coronavirus rapid-testing method: Bees
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... e-testing/
The fight against the coronavirus pandemic has scientists tapping an unlikely resource: the finely tuned olfactory sense of bees.
Dutch researchers on Monday said they have trained honeybees to stick out their tongues when presented with the virus’s unique scent, acting as a kind of rapid test.
Although it’s a less conventional method than lab tests, the scientists said teaching bees to diagnose the coronavirus could help fill a gap in low-income countries with limited access to more sophisticated technology, like materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/ ... e-testing/
The fight against the coronavirus pandemic has scientists tapping an unlikely resource: the finely tuned olfactory sense of bees.
Dutch researchers on Monday said they have trained honeybees to stick out their tongues when presented with the virus’s unique scent, acting as a kind of rapid test.
Although it’s a less conventional method than lab tests, the scientists said teaching bees to diagnose the coronavirus could help fill a gap in low-income countries with limited access to more sophisticated technology, like materials for polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests.
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Climbing mountains is dumb.
Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!
Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!
Bugger off.
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Robyn Hitchcock will start touring again in the Autumn!
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Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.
Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!
unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.
there's a mountain I want to climb it
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We all know about Zebra Crossings and Pelican Crossings but.....new to me today....are Puffin Crossings and Toucan Crossings.
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Hightea wrote:Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.
Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!
unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.
I wasn't being serious. I've been up a few small mountains myself, and even went rock-climbing a couple of times.
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Rorschach wrote:Hightea wrote:Rorschach wrote:Climbing mountains is dumb.
Over 300 people have died climbing Everest and more than 90 on K2, five of them this year!
unfair to compare climbing a mountain and climbing a major snow capped peak. I've climbed 100's of mountains and I'm still alive although I've tumbled down a few trails and sprained a few ankles.
I wasn't being serious. I've been up a few small mountains myself, and even went rock-climbing a couple of times.
figured you were joking but my love of mountains has my blabbing, sadly can't climb mountains like before.
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If your cat gets an infected anal gland, you’ll know about it.
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Elephant garlic is not part of the garlic species. They are a species of leeks.
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someone pointed this out on twitter, talking about the massive changes we've made in technology and science in the last hundred years.
these two events are 66 years apart.
these two events are 66 years apart.
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kath wrote:someone pointed this out on twitter, talking about the massive changes we've made in technology and science in the last hundred years.
these two events are 66 years apart.
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That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway
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Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".
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C wrote:That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway
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Her dad was a German soldier. She believed he had died during the war but they met each other thirty years later.
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jimboo wrote:C wrote:That ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad was born in Norway
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Her dad was a German soldier. She believed he had died during the war but they met each other thirty years later.
Thanks -that's very interesting
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Lord Rother wrote:And there was me thinking you'd say "Fair enough, you have a point Bob".
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That ex-Attraction Bruce Thomas wrote a book about Bruce Lee called "Bruce Lee:Fighting Spirit"!
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Everyone hates Ranking Ted!
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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
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First - google ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’
When you get your results, click on the licence plate on the left
When you get your results, click on the licence plate on the left
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Someone in your line of work usually as their own man cave aka the shed we're they can potter around fixing stuff or something don't they?
Flower wrote:I just did a google search.
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Minnie the Minx wrote:First - google ‘Fresh Prince of Bel Air’
When you get your results, click on the licence plate on the left
I must be getting different results to you, damnit!
No sign of a licence plate.
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I've recently come to learn that carpenter bees will turn the outside of your dwelling into Swiss cheese!
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Omg. Jimbo. Divorce? Really?
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