NOVA scienceNOW | Snail Slime | PBS

What do get when you cross the world's most famous slowpoke with some of MIT's latest high-tech robotics? Anna Lee Strachan, an associate producer for NOVA scienceNOW, finds out.

Video podcast written and produced by Anna Lee Strachan. Edited by Harlan Reiniger. A NOVA Production by Diatom Media for WGBH/Boston. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.

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[sallytracey]

snails love beer.

[dunewarriorzy]

lol typical grad students: got a problem? use beer!

[themishkin]

I wonder what a drunk snail is like...

[MomOfSailorOnUSSKH]

It is highly annoying for those snail critters to eat up your plants that you worked so hard planting. I have found one thing to attract slugs, and that is orange peels. We found out by accident, and you lay them out at night, toss them out in the morning in the garbage.........it will be covered in slugs.

[MomOfSailorOnUSSKH]

The preying mantis is alive and kicking in my yard. When they are babies they are green, but as it turns into late summer/autumn they turn brown. At least they do in my region.

[kapwns]

im not sure i could've gone on living without knowing that...whatever happened to that praying mantis? i guess we'll never know

[MomOfSailorOnUSSKH]

I hate snails..........icky i squish them when i find them. I saw a baby preying mantis in my garden yesterday........I hate snail slime.

[colgatesmiley]

Are you serious?

I've heard about sanil cream.

Does it work?

[danijh]

no wonder my skin cream works.. its got snail slime power in it!!

[DADShadowFox]

I love the sam adams plug. I can't stop laughing.