slime
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Winning Close-Up Photos Show Life in Sync With Water
They may not sound as majestic as herds of elephants or flocks of migrating birds, but as these photos attest, there’s incredible beauty to be found in moss springtails and slime molds. Life is just as dramatic at a smaller scale, and, like in the macro world, water is key to survival. For the Close-up…
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Snail Slime: The Science Behind Molluscs As Medicine
Snails are well known for their lack of speed and their ability to upset gardeners. But there is growing scientific interest in the familiar sticky trail of slime they leave behind ” and the medicinal value it may contain.
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The Mad Scientists At Jell-O Have Figured Out How To Make Edible Slime
Not content with just re-engineering the classic Jell-O formula so that the dessert can be used to make jiggly toy building blocks, a team of food scientists hidden away somewhere in Kraft Foods’ secret laboratories asked a question no one has ever asked before: what if slime was edible?
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Life As We Know Could Have Come From Algae On Steroids
Image: Harsha K R/Flickr What was life really like here on planet Earth before animals were big enough to leave fossils behind? How did living things turn from dinky capsules of genetic material into the intelligent, complex organisms that do things like fart and type curse words into posts on the internet? Scientists think they…