This is a guy who showers in mud and dines with gusto on eyeballs and
slug slime.
Denny's early research showed that
slug slime is similar to the mucus that lines our lungs and comes out of our noses when we're sick.
STICK TEST Researchers put an adhesive inspired by the chemical structure of
slug slime through its paces.
OZY INSPIRATION Gelatinous
slug slime inspired a new adhesive, which sticks strongly to wet surfaces such as this pig heart.
In the Sept. 30 SN: Smog's health woes, secrets of the bat brain,
slug slime inspires surgical glue, wild beer, Neandertal tar recipes, the sun's recent flare - ups and more.
Is
slug slime as strong as a glue stick?
Obviously the flavor isn't a perfect dead ringer for cream cheese, but I added some «everything bagel seasoning» (I use
Slug Slime from Los Bagels) and I couldn't even tell.
Not exact matches
My siblings also had a knack for finding these giant
slugs, literally almost as big as their heads, no lie, whose
slime was so thick and gooey, it took paint thinner to remove it from their sticky hands.
The
slime that saves
slugs» lives could do the same for humans.
«You are more likely to come across the traces of the «tragedy»: dead or alive nestlings with heavy injuries, covered in
slime — and often
slugs» droppings found nearby.»
Hunting in packs, the gastropods prefer to prey on the Northwest spotted owl, which the
slugs stalk by smearing unspeakable
slime trails on tree branches that the owl can not then firmly grasp.
Originally, Cajuns merely exterminated these
slugs as pests who preyed on spotted owls.This was done by ringing trees where the spotted owls roosted with Alka - Selzters, and when the
slugs raced across the tablets, the carbon - dioxide gas generated by the interaction of the
slime and the Alka - Seltzer would gas them to death.
For his research, Smith prods
slugs gently with the tip of a metal spatula to startle them, and scoops up the
slime as it's released.
A
slug, for instance, produces its
slime as it needs it.
Slug defense
slime solves that problem with two interwoven networks of molecules, tangled together like strings of holiday lights.
After carefully analyzing the tapes, the scientists were able to build a robot that moved on artificial
slime like a
slug moves on real
slime.
Bring on the
slugs, the
slime, the «new - again» primordial sludge (Deja - vue all over again!).