Yes? Little cockroaches thrive without Zelda's help

Recently, "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" was officially released.

In Breath of the Wild, Zelda's old players like to use "Huh?" "Express your lament at the outrageous operation in the game. If you come to the Tears of Kingdom player community, you might hear "Huh? "Loud.

On station B, Zelda players issued a "Huh? "丨Bilibili

Open the social platform, just enter the keyword "Zelda", and you can see all kinds of outrageous assemblies.

Yes? How can you still put a minecart on a shield? 丨Cut it yourself

Not only that, but if you type Zelda's English "Zelda" into Google Scholar, you will definitely open your mouth and let out a meaningful "Huh?" ”

Zelda helps fruit flies develop

If you see "Zelda" in a biology paper, it usually refers to a protein and the gene it corresponds to.

In 2008, researchers discovered and named this protein from fruit flies [1]. It is a very important transcription factor that activates gene expression in the early stages of Drosophila embryonic development.

Yes, there is a Zelda | in the fruit fly embryo Clemens B. Hug et al.

The full name of this protein is actually quite simple: "Zinc-finger early Drosophila activator." "Zinc finger" is the type of protein to which it belongs, and early activators are its function. When it came time to abbreviate, the researchers obviously peeled a bit, and forced the letter of their choice to make up "Zelda".

I can't guess how you guys got it without drawing a line | Hsiao-Lan Liang et al.

Actually, "Zelda" is not its first name. As early as 2006, another group of researchers gave it the German name "vielfältig" (meaning "diverse").[2] It's just that the name Zelda is loud and easy to remember, and its original name has never been mentioned again.

In addition to fruit flies, Zelda's homologous genes are also present in other insects such as cockroaches [3]. It can be said that the growth of the little cockroach is also inseparable from the help of Zelda (?) ）。

Zelda fights marine pollution

In other fields, there are also scientists who try to codify the abbreviation and name their research results "Zelda".

For example, in 2021, researchers published their synthesized "Zelda" material [4]. The full name of this material is "in-based ow ensity porous sorbent", abbreviated as ZELDA also has a kind of unprincipled beauty.

Zelda |, the materials world Nathan P. Holley et al.

This "Zelda" is an absorbent material to clean up oil spills on the surface of water, and it is expected to be used to combat marine pollution and reduce the environmental harm caused by oil spills. Its synthetic raw material is zein (Zein), a natural protein found in corn endosperm. This raw material is a by-product of corn processing, which is quite cheap and easy to obtain, and it is easy to degrade, which can be said to be quite environmentally friendly a Zelda.

Zelda contributes to astronomical observations

The astronomy community also has its own "Zelda". On the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, there is an abbreviated device called "ZELDA" [5]. Its full name is headache-catching, and it is called "Zernike sensor for extremely accurate measurements of low-level differential phase differences."

In short, this is a device for calibrating aberrations, and it is helping astronomers better observe exoplanets - and it also gives us another glimpse of how scientists can put together private goods...

This all makes you make up | NASA

"Zelda's" contribution to astrophysics does not stop there. It is also the name of a scientific software tool that can perform spectral analysis of distant galaxies and calculate their redshift.[6]

The researchers named it α"redshift stimator for ine profiles of istant Lyman lpha emitters," or zELDA.

And what, where does the abbreviated z come from, you ask? The answer is that cosmological redshift is usually represented by the letter z...

Does lowercase even work!| Siddhartha Gurung-López

It's hard to say whether these scientists, when naming the materials and tools they study, first wrote out Zelda and then forced it into a dictionary.

But that's fine, seeing that so many scientists still remember Zelda, Princess Zelda will at least get some relief!

After all, "Tears of the Kingdom" is out, and many people have not yet saved Princess Zelda in "Breath of the Wild"!

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bibliography

[1]http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v456/n7220/abs/nature07388.html

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1446075/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30993896/

[4] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0927775721000170

[5] https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/exep/lowfsc/agenda/Ndiaye_Mamadou.pdf

[6] https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/510/3/4525/6459731

Cover image credit|Nintendo

An AI

I guess that there are still people who think that the male protagonist in the game is called Zelda.

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