Researchers from the University of Oxford’s chemistry department found that like-charged particles submerged in solutions were able to attract each other from long distances, depending on the solvent used and the sign of the charge.
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The researchers tracked negatively charged silica microparticles that were suspended in a solution and discovered that these particles did indeed attract each other, forming hexagonally arranged clusters when they did.
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The scientists believe the phenomenon is caused by an attractive force only present in water that outweighs the usual electrostatic repulsion, allowing these clusters to form.
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“We show that in aqueous solution, negatively charged particles can attract at long range while positively charged particles repel. In solvents that exhibit an inversion of the net molecular dipole at an interface, such as alcohols, we find that the converse can be true: positively charged particles may attract whereas negatives repel.”

Left unsaid is why the force is only present in water. Science is never settled.

Related: Sun bursts with largest solar flare since 2017.

But go ahead, get rid of your internal combustion car in favor of one powered by batteries strip-mined in China and generators fueled with trainloads of coal and diesel.

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Vaccines that protect against severe illness, death and lingering long Covid symptoms from a coronavirus infection were linked to small increases in neurological, blood, and heart-related conditions in the largest global vaccine safety study to date.

The rare events — identified early in the pandemic — included a higher risk of heart-related inflammation from mRNA shots made by Pfizer Inc., BioNTech SE, and Moderna Inc., and an increased risk of a type of blood clot in the brain after immunization with viral-vector vaccines such as the one developed by the University of Oxford and made by AstraZeneca Plc.

The viral-vector jabs were also tied to an increased risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurological disorder in which the immune system mistakenly attacks the peripheral nervous system.

Expect the severity to increase the closer he gets to the Oval Office, and decrease once he’s denied the position. The vaccine is his weakest spot, but he has an (only) adequate defense if he says he was lied to by Fauci et al. Above all else, the American people are fair, and his good intentions go a long way with that.

But of course, certain conspiracy theorists are now cannonballing into the toldyaso pool.

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I mean, seriously, he looks sleep deprived. How much good is that doing for his memory?

Meanwhile, Landau had been cooking up a hypothesis. That’s actually an understatement. She had fully figured it out. “She just says, ‘I was looking at it, and then I went away and then I looked at it again,'” Nasser remembers.

That poster didn’t say Zoozve, she realized. Those weren’t Z’s. That wasn’t even a moon.

One ordinary day, while taking care of his son, Nasser in reality caught sight of a funny detail on a nearby solar system poster named not Zoozve but rather “2002VE” — a quasi-moon of Venus that was discovered in its namesake year. The first quasi-moon ever found, in fact.

Official bulletin here. Also honored: Diana Gabaldon, of Outlander authorship and great-grandaughter to Stanley Sykes, builder of the telescope used to discover Pluto. Hers is minor planet 2000 KY₆₅, now officially (28890) Gabaldon.

Once the drinks are done, get the engineering team together and figure out how to do it again, but better this time. 50-year interstellar probe lifetimes are barely enough to get us out the door of the Solar System. We need something that can go as long as a century and as far as a thousand astronomical units. Voyager 1 is currently tooling along towards 163 AU.