NOVA scienceNOW | NOVA Short | Snail Slime

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Channel: NOVA PBS Official · 2007 · Science & Technology

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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.

NOVA scienceNOW, the cutting-edge magazine show from the producers of NOVA, airs five Tuesdays a year on PBS and is available for viewing 365 days a year online. 

Visit the NOVA scienceNOW Web site at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/youtube/redir/wgbh/nova/sciencenow

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