Saturday, 24 August 2013

Glow in the Dark Snails Make Boring Research Beautiful

Glow in the Dark Snails Make Boring Research Beautiful
Aug 24th 2013, 14:00, by Leslie Horn
18xxea9qe1ve7gifA group of researchers from the ecology department at the University of Exeter have been spending time studying how snails transmit a parasite called lungworm to dogs. Ah, my god, how boring. But they made something beautiful out of the project when they attached LEDs to the slow moving slugs to track their movements at [...]












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