#asymmetry

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Circles of Life

Running in circles is often a criticism – a metaphor for going nowhere fast. But spiralling or chiral movement may be an effective way of cautiously exploring an environment, especially if you’re a bacterium. Here a throng of cyanobacteria – the oldest living organism on Earth – glide in and out of a droplet of water. While appearing chaotic at first, the bacteria inside the droplet stretch out like holidaymakers in a jacuzzi (although ~3000 times smaller), while cells leaving the water begin to bend, turning in a clockwise direction until they find water again. Differences in velocity between the 'head' and 'tail' of the bacteria yield this natural curve to the right. Such studies of chirality in ancient organisms may yield insights to asymmetry in other types of bacteria, but also in understanding, and tackling cyanobacteria in harmful algal blooms.

Written by John Ankers

Video from work by Andrej Vilfan and colleagues

Laboratory for Fluid Physics, Pattern Formation and Biocomplexity (LFPB), Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), February 2026

i wouldn't say he's jumping for joy at the thought of sharing his soulmate with his brother, but he's probably the only soul on earth he'd suffer touching her. that's been a constant from the start.

so it's not jealousy, at least where ran's concerned.

point blank, he doesn't want a soulmate. he enjoys the life he has, fucking who he wants, hurting who he wants, flying high on whatever premium grade drugs he can get his hands on, crashing hard and doing it all over again the next day.

and when he meets her, he isn't impressed. doesn't want a ball and chain dragging after him for the rest of his life, always bitching and moaning and crying about him not giving her attention or some other bullshit. she's not cut out for him or this life.

unfortunately for him, soulmates don't work that way <3