There was suddenly an explosion of reporting, commentary, TV debates.
The recent explosion of reported cases of plasmids in all rickettsial groups except TG rickettsiae argues for the latter scenario, and is congruent with our findings of nearly zero instances of plasmid associated genes, genes typical of HGT events and gene duplications within TG rickettsial genomes.
Now what we see is an explosion of positive scientific reports about how psychedelics can be used to heal.
Last year, the two announced that they were getting divorced, and neither the blandness nor the brevity of the announcement prevented an explosion of investigative (or imaginative) reporting.
This week they reported an "explosion" of STIs, caused by dramatic cuts to sexual health services and the rise of hook-up apps.
That provocative review (Carlsen et al. 1992) led to an explosion of studies, some of which reported a decline in semen quality (Auger et al. 1995; Irvine et al. 1996; Younglai et al. 1998) and some of which did not (Pal et al. 2006).
When an explosion was reported near the city of Rhodes, some Greek news services immediately speculated that it was another terrorist attack.
The Sun's political editor, Trevor Kavanagh, supported the leader line, reporting "an explosion of German anger towards the sickly euro, months before it replaces the deutschmark for ever".
"During the next 25 years, the baby-boomer generation is expected to create an explosion of potentially immunocompromised persons," the report stated.
Meanwhile, a recent Pew Research Center report highlighted an explosion of mobile payments in Sub-Saharan Africa, where a much higher percentage of mobile users (as high as 68percentt in Kenya) report regularly using phones to make or receive payments vs. a median of just 8percentt in other countries surveyed.
