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brown duckling. The study of ducklings swimming in formation, which questions whether the principles behind them can be applied elsewhere, is the subject of this year’s Ig Nobel Prize in Physics.
Dr Siouxsie Wiles MNZM is an award-winning microbiologist and science communicator based in Auckland.
opinion: It is a time when the world honors and celebrates the great contributions to science, medicine, engineering, economics, literature and world peace. I’m not talking about the Nobel Prize. It will be announced in October.
No, I’m talking about ig Nobel. Ig Nobel founder Mark pays tribute to amazing, puzzling and interesting research that, in the words of his Abrahams, “first makes you laugh, then makes you think.”
Here are some of the Ig Nobel Prizes that caught our attention this year. First, the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Frank Fish, Jimin Yuan, Mingle Chen, Laibing Jia, Chunyang Zhi, and Atira Ynchek for trying to understand how ducklings swim in formation. was awarded. If you’ve seen them, ducklings tend to follow their parents in single file.
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About 30 years ago, Fish showed that ducklings can save a lot of energy by swimming after their leader. And last year, Yuan and his colleagues developed a mathematical model to show why swimming in a line is so energy efficient.
They discovered two new and interesting discoveries: surf-riding and wave-passing. According to their model, adult ducks generate waves that the ducklings behind them can ride, while simultaneously passing the energy of the waves to the next duckling behind them.
All this surfing and passing reduces drag and reduces energy expenditure for each duck. That’s obviously good for little ducklings, but what if we could apply this principle more broadly? When cargo ships sailed in platoons, they could carry more cargo with less fuel Is not it?
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The drug category is something to keep in mind if you know someone who is being treated with the chemotherapy drug melphalan. One way to prevent this side effect is to have the patient suck on an ice chip or ice cube while the medicine is being infused. Previous studies have shown that the cold narrows the blood vessels in the mouth, reducing inflammation and reducing drug contact with the delicate oral tissues.
But studies have also shown that patients don’t really like sucking on ice cubes while being infused with chemotherapy drugs. Ig of the Year awarded to Marszynjaszynski, Martina Maciejewska, Anna Broziak, Mihaugorka, Kamilask Wierewska, Wieslawjenrzejczak, Agnieszka Tomaszewska, Grzegorz Basak and Emilian Narski his The Nobel Prize in Medicine was for showing that ice cubes can be replaced. With ice cream!
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Susie Wiles: “Obviously good for little ducklings, but what if we could apply this principle more broadly? When freighters sailed in platoons, they carried more cargo on less fuel.” can you?”
They found that less than 30% of patients who were asked to slowly suck ice cream or popsicles while receiving melphalan infusion developed oral mucositis, compared to patients who did not ingest ice cream. compared to 60% of
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