#  The Secret to the Velvet Worm's Split-Second Slime Attack 

 





March 17, 2015

 

 

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Prof. **L. Mahadevan** and [Andrés Concha](http://www.uai.cl/docentes/andres-concha) (former Harvard postdoc) reveal the secret to the velvet worm's split-second slime attack in the latest issue of Nature Communications. [Full story](http://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2015/03/harvard-research-explains-worm-slime-attack) and [video](http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/03/video-velvet-worm-squirts-slime-jets-lawn-sprinkler?utm_campaign=email-news-latest&utm_src=email). (image courtesy of Andrés Concha)



 

 

 



 

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