Symmetry is a feature of many plants, animals and even some molecules -- like water. But that's not the case with snails and their coiled shells. They are chiral -- asymmetrical in such a way that ...

For long journeys, the shell of a snail hardly seems like the ideal public transport. That is, of course, unless you’re an even smaller snail… Yasunori Kano from the University of Miyazaki has found ...