Well, this ended on quite the cliffhanger. Incredibly curious what is next discovered about this "sandman" ion channel and what it interacts with and responds to.

Additional links:

Oxford write-up which sticks more prosaicLly to the science (I imply no pejorative connotation to "prosaic", I simply mean there are fewer flourishes and asides): http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-08-03-researchers-discover-san...

Paper in Nature: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...