Previously the molecules clicked together in a straight flat line—like a seat belt—but Bertozzi discovered that forcing them " to be a bit bent" made the reaction more stable, Diez-Gonzalez said.
Mount Hoffman is a mass of gray granite that rises almost in the center of the Yosemite Park, about eight or ten miles in a straight line from the Valley.
One New Caledonian crow, called Betty, bent some straight wire into a hook and used it to lift a small bucket of her favourite food from a vertical pipe.