Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from

Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today Dr. Lawrence

Papura will talk about the different types of treatments that could help us fight the coronavirus

with a focus on monoclonal antibodies.

But first you'll learn why the universe seems to hate odd numbers.

Let's satisfy some curiosity.

The universe is full of patterns.

For example, when scientists were taking inventory of all the known elements, they noticed that the ones

with even numbers of protons were a lot more common than the

ones with odd numbers of protons. So what does the universe have against odd numbers?

It all comes down to how elements form. And the pattern is pretty striking.

If you took all 92 naturally occurring elements off of the periodic table and you put them on a graph to show how plentiful they were in the universe,

you would notice two things right away. First, you would see that elements generally become

more rare as their proton numbers increase. So for example, the elements with

one proton, hydrogen, is super common, while the elements with 92 protons, Uranium, is the rarest of them all.

Second, that line would zigzag like an alligator's teeth.

That's because the elements with even numbers of protons are way more common than elements with odd numbers of protons.

Carbon with six protons is way more common than nitrogen and boron, its odd proton neighbors.

Aside from hydrogen and a couple other outliers,

this pattern holds for all the elements.

Weird, right?

This phenomenon is called the Otto Harkins rule and it's named after the two

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