MIT researchers have found that when raindrops hit the ground they release aerosols, which produce a distinctive scent, reports Avianne Tan of ABC News.
Prof. Cullen Buie explains that the findings also show how bacteria could spread through "chemicals being carried by aerosols". MIT researchers have discovered why rainfall produces such a distinctive smell, reports Rachel Feltman for The Washington Post.
It can have a distinctive odour, reported to range from a synthetic fishy smell to the smell of vanilla and bleach, stale urine, or electric circuit boards.
In that stampede of coverage, opportunities for distinctive reporting are few.
Following the first comprehensive analysis reporting a distinctive intestinal microbiota composition in IBS patients (75), several studies have identified differences between the microbiota of IBS patients, or subgroups thereof, and healthy controls (reviewed in (7)).
Nodding syndrome as a distinctive entity was reported from southern Sudan in the 1990s and investigated by local authorities and the World Health Organization (WHO) during 2001 2002 (1, 2 ).
The Northwestern study is the second one published this year to report a distinctive pattern of sexual arousal among bisexual men.
The most controversial example has been in reporting a distinctive pattern of low-molecular weight proteins that characterises the sera of women with early-stage ovarian cancer that is very rarely found in control sera [ 43].
Moreover, using fMRI Summerfield et al. (2010) reported a distinctive biphasic pattern of activity during the scene construction process, whereby regions such as PHC, hippocampus, and retrosplenial cortex activated when participants imagined the first scene element, and then again when they combined the third scene element with the previous two items.
The report said: "A distinctive feature of soaps is that they have everyday settings and strong elements of realism in the portrayals, despite the extravagant nature of some of the plots.
These reports are a distinctive form of publication, taking a different form and structure from most research reports in the biomedical literature and guided by their own set of publication guidelines.
