Why and how do Jellyfish sting? - a podcast by Melissa and Jam

from 2021-05-20T10:27:25

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What's the chemistry of a jellyfish sting? Why do they feel so different from other stings? And what can we even do when we get stung? And what about the popular urine theory, does that help anything? Let's find out!

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References from this episode


  1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20305955/

  2. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-behind-that-jellyfish-sting-2844876/

  3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/bies.95017041

  4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3640396/

  5. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/reactions/videos/2017/should-you-pee-on-a-jellyfish-sting.html

  6. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00277


  7. https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2020/acs-presspac-june-10-2020/what-makes-a-giant-jellyfishs-sting-deadly.html





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