{"id":35487,"date":"2011-05-22T15:42:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/snake-venom-with-ketchup-like-viscosity-oozes-into-prey-80beats\/"},"modified":"2011-05-22T15:42:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-22T15:42:39","slug":"snake-venom-with-ketchup-like-viscosity-oozes-into-prey-80beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/snake-venom-with-ketchup-like-viscosity-oozes-into-prey-80beats.php","title":{"rendered":"Snake Venom, With Ketchup-Like Viscosity, Oozes Into Prey | 80beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29100 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ce545_6a00d8341bf67c53ef0154325dae45970c-320wi.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"283\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">What&rsquo;s the News: <\/strong>Most poisonous snakes don&rsquo;t inject their prey with venom; instead, they bite the prey and venom insidiously trickles down a groove on their fangs into the wound.&nbsp;A new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/prl.aps.org\/abstract\/PRL\/v106\/i19\/e198103\">study<\/a> in <em>Physical Review Letters <\/em>investigated the physics behind how venom travels down the grooves: It turns out that snake venom has unusual viscosity properties that keep it cohering together until it&rsquo;s time to flow down the fangs and into the snake&rsquo;s soon-to-be-snack&mdash;the same properties that account for how ketchup seems stuck in the bottle, then flows freely onto your fries.<\/p><p><strong>How the Heck:<\/strong><\/p><p> The researchers found that snake venom, like ketchup, is a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Non-Newtonian_fluid\">non-Newtonian fluid<\/a>, meaning that its viscosity <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/animals\/venom-is-like-ketchup-110518.html\">depends on how fast it&rsquo;s moving<\/a>. Before the snake&rsquo;s fangs make contact, the venom sticks together pretty well, rather than coming down the tooth in a constant trickle. Once the fangs sink in, however, and the venom starts dripping down the groove, it flows freely.<br>What starts the venom flowing, ...<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kkcugQOS3cHgyOCdznF-G7m1VzM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ce545_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/kkcugQOS3cHgyOCdznF-G7m1VzM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ce545_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ce545_uZk-SOoj0v4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/ce545_SxaDpMr_-yY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&rsquo;s the News: Most poisonous snakes don&rsquo;t inject their prey with venom; instead, they bite the prey and venom insidiously trickles down a groove on their fangs into the wound.&nbsp;A new study in Physical Review Letters investigated the physics behind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/snake-venom-with-ketchup-like-viscosity-oozes-into-prey-80beats.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}