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Caption: This image shows how opposite rotations of the head and tail of the single-celled microbe Caulobacter crescentus creates drag, which helps dictate its swimming direction in a fluid. The other influence is a phenomenon called Brownian motion.
Credit: Jay Tang, Brown University
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