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TINY RUDDER Over the course of 90 milliseconds, a bacterial cell (Vibrio alginolyticus) makes a hard right turn. It does so by backing up, moving forward and letting the base of its taillike flagellum buckle, researchers have discovered.
K. Son et al/Nature Physics