Look, my little snail.

Particles entering the detector are denoted by the helical arrow.

So Wilkins said he thought it was the helix.

If you slow down, you will slowly spiral into the Earth

A woman named Aomame in 1984 Japan finds herself negotiating down a spiral staircase off an elevated highway.

But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.

In muscle, they corkscrew, so that muscles can contract without cutting off circulation.

And the wonderful thing about the new bookstore is, it's going to be shaped in a spiral that's organized by the Dewey Decimal System.

In contrast, optical audio and video discs use a single spiral track that starts at the inner most point on the disc and flows continuously to the outer edge.

In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick, building on the work of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin, suggested that the structure of DNA was a double helix.

So if the web was made entirely out of dragline silk, an insect is very likely to just bounce right off. But by having really, really stretchy capture spiral silk, the web is actually able to absorb the impact of that intercepted prey.

Takeuchi and Nonaka later argued in The Knowledge Creating Company that it is a form of organizational knowledge creation, ... especially good at bringing about innovation continuously, incrementally and spirally .

Unless they are large enough to go supernova, most stars end their lives in more of a whimper than a bang, as shown in this gallery of dying stars captured by the Hubble

But before doing that, I just briefly want to remind you about what you already know that our genomes, our genetic material, are stored in almost all cells in our bodies in chromosomes in the form of DNA, which is this famous double helical molecule.

That alone would tend to line them up in the Sun Earth direction, but the rotation of the Sun angles them at Earth by about 45 degrees forming a spiral in the ecliptic plane), known as the Parker spiral.

For example, in the liver they form channels to detoxify the blood in the lung they line air sacs for gas exchange in muscle they corkscrew so that muscles can contract without cutting off circulation and in nerves they course along like power lines, keeping those nerves alive.

It is a stark fact that nearly 75 per cent of the world's population live in areas that have experienced at least one serious natural disaster event of one kind or another earthquake, typhoon, cyclone, hurricane, flood, drought and so on over the past 20 years.