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Protons swim with ease through shark jelly

23 May 2016 Hamish Johnston
Photograph of the snout of a tiger shark showing ampullae of Lorenzini
Sniffing electric fields: ampullae of Lorenzini on a tiger shark's snout. (CC BY-SA/Albert Kok)
Scientists in the US have discovered that a jelly-like material found in the skin of sharks and some

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