Saturday, August 24, 2013

Glow-in-the-Dark Snails Make Boring Research Beautiful

Source: http://gizmodo.com/glow-in-the-dark-snails-make-boring-research-beautiful-1190008316

Glow-in-the-Dark Snails Make Boring Research Beautiful

A group of researchers from the ecology department at the U.K.'s University of Exeter have been spending time studying how snails transmit a parasite called lungworm to dogs in Great Britain. 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 night.

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