According to the SSU, the new generation of Sea Baby drones has become “even more dangerous to the enemy.” The new version of the Sea Baby drones is currently being tested.
“The new SeaBaby 2024 has better technical characteristics, greater combat capabilities and maneuverability. It can carry almost a ton of explosives at a distance of 1,000 kilometers,” the report said.
At the same time, it is emphasized that the sea drone “Sea Baby” is not only a kamikaze drone, but also a universal multifunctional platform that can be equipped with its own weapons.
“During this process, SSU developers will adapt state-of-the-art weapons specifically designed and manufactured for use on multi-role platforms such as Sea Baby,” the SSU said.
It is important to emphasize that the statistics published by the SSU state that the security service “bombed the Crimean bridge with naval drones and hit 11 Russian warships.”
It is known that this drone took part in the attack on the Crimean bridge. However, effective attacks by an earlier version of the Sea Baby drone against 11 Russian ships means that these drones have played a much wider role in destroying Russia’s Black Sea fleet than previously thought, writes Defense Express.
It became “even more dangerous”: Ukraine demonstrated a modernized weapon
Plastics: 9,936 different chemicals in plastic food packaging!
– 2024-05-08 00:43:36
Plastic food packaging widely used around the world was put under the microscope by Norwegian researchers and their results were extremely worrying, according to two publications in the scientific journal “Environmental Science & Technology”.
“We detected 9,936 different chemicals in a single plastic product used as food packaging,” said Dr. Martin Wagner, an associate professor in the Department of Biology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), who has been studying the chemicals in plastic products for several years. along with his team.
Negative effect on hormones and metabolism
In the first study the researchers looked at 36 different plastic products used as food packaging. The plastic packaging came from five countries: USA, UK, South Korea, Germany and Norway.
“In most of these plastic products we have identified chemicals that can affect hormone secretion and metabolism,” noted Professor Wagner and explained that these negative effects are of great importance given that both hormones and metabolism play a key role in orderly functioning of the organization.
Hormones are the body’s “messengers”. They are secreted by many different glands and allow the organs to communicate with each other. As for metabolism, it is the set of different biochemical processes that convert the chemical energy of food into chemical energy of the human body and into heat.
Effect on signal transmission
In the second study, the researchers tested different chemical combinations of the plastics to discover their potential effect on G protein-coupled receptors. These receptors play an important role in the transmission of signals within the human body. “We identified 11 combinations of chemicals in plastic packaging that act on these signaling receptors,” said Dr. Wagner.
Safer plastics are needed
“Both these and previous findings show that plastics are exposing us to toxic chemicals. All these elements reinforce the opinion that we need to redesign plastics to make them safer,” the professor underlined.
Leakage of chemicals from plastic
In the past it was not clear whether the chemicals in plastics can be released into the environment under normal conditions or whether they remain bound to the plastic. However, a few years ago, another research group (in which Dr. Wagner participated) demonstrated that most plastic products leak chemicals when the products are submerged in water. In fact, in that study, researchers had discovered that some of the chemicals in plastics can affect human fertility.
At least what we know
Given that plastic products contain many different chemicals, scientists are not able to find the effects of all these chemicals at the same time. This practically means that we still know very little about what most of the chemicals in plastics can do to our bodies.
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Can processed foods become addictive?
Experts say that eating ultra-processed foods can become an addiction just like cigarettes.
According to media reports, researchers from the United States, Spain and Brazil jointly published their research in the British Medical Journal, which revealed that eating highly processed foods is as addictive as cigarettes or alcohol. takes the form of
Researchers reviewed 281 studies from more than 35 countries to measure food addiction, using 11 different criteria for analysis. The study included participants who had been eating ultra-processed foods for the past few years.
Researchers found an average increase in food addiction in 14 percent of adults, 12 percent of children and 32 percent of obese people. Ultra-processed foods contain pure carbohydrates and added fat. Both of these release dopamine in the brain similar to that released during smoking or drinking alcohol, which increases feelings of satisfaction.
However, natural foods, on the other hand, have little or no fat or carbohydrate levels. For example, apples contain carbohydrates but very little fat, and fish contain fat but zero carbohydrates.
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2024-05-08 02:03:29
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