A microbe-filled petri dish isn't usually where one would expect to find art, but it turns out that cell colonies can form some pretty compelling visuals. The honor of first place went to “Neurons,” a ...

(via Minute Earth) One of the best ways of studying bacteria is to grow them on a petri dish, but only a tiny percentage of bacterial species will grow on them. The other 98% of them simply refuse to.

A TikTok page shows what might be growing around you. In this instance, it shows how bacteria grows inside the kitchen sink.

Mysterious, unusual white colonies of bacteria growing in a lab’s petri dish alerted workers at Cheyenne’s water works that something was amiss.