Swimming Microbes (IMAGE)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Swimming Microbes

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A sheet of tiny swimming organisms that "push" themselves through fluid with, say, flagella, create forces in the liquid that bend the sheet in asymmetric, shrinking folds.

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Image courtesy of Saverio Spagnolie

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