Skąd wino? - Po co chorujemy? - Snajper, który strzela moczem | Czytamy naturę #157

In episode 157 of "Reading Nature," I talk about: 1) 01:09 the history of wine, deduced from extensive genetic research; 2) 06:49 the neural pathway leading from the throat to the brain, causing the feeling of being sick; 3) 16:57 the bug that urinates 300 times its own weight daily, all in precisely shot droplets that bend the laws of physics. Sources: 1) Dong, Y., Duan, S., Xia, Q., Liang, Z., Dong, X., Margaryan, K., ... & Chen, W. (2023). Dual domestications and the origin of traits in grapevine evolution. Science, 379(6635), 892-901. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s... 2) Bin, N. R., Prescott, S. L., Horio, N., Wang, Y., Chiu, I. M., & Liberles, S. D. (2023). An airway-to-brain sensory pathway mediates influenza-induced sickness. Nature, 1-8. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4158... 3) Challita, E. J., Sehgal, P., Krugner, R., & Bhamla, M. S. (2023). Droplet superpropulsion in an energetically constrained insect. Nature Communications, 14(1), 860. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146... This material was created with funding from the Excellence Initiative Strategic Program at the Jagiellonian University.