Bizarre giant viruses with tubular tentacles and star-like shells discovered in New England forest ( www.livescience.com )
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Does anybody know if such a collapse would happen instantaneous or more gradual? With the massive amount of water in motion it feels like it would take a long time to stop, or are fluids behaving differently?
And some commentary on the paper:...