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1 week agoA newly-discovered molecular process explains how our bodies perceive the cold
Research on the TRPM8 protein reveals its role in cold sensation, potentially leading to new treatments for cold-induced pain.
In terms of making things happen, energy is an indispensable consideration. Systems spontaneously tend towards the lowest-energy state. When a system reaches equilibrium, no further energy can be extracted. That maximum entropy, lowest energy state is the inevitable end-state of the Universe. But until that moment arrives, reactions of all kinds will occur, continuing to liberate energy. In our bodies, chemical bonds break and reform: releasing energy.