Our relationship with microbes has always been complicated. We fear them as “germs,” the organisms behind disease, yet embrace them for their role in the food web and for producing fermented food ...

It’s called agar art and the Baltimore Underground Science Space has a series of workshops coming up. Art and science in one dish! Agar art. Leave it to scientists to make something beautiful out of a ...

In what may be the coolest confluence of art and science since drone-swarm light shows, YouTuber and researcher The Thought Emporium, a.k.a. Justin, has made tiny paintings in petri dishes using ...

Every year, the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) invites people to submit “agar art” - an image created by growing differently coloured microorganisms on a plate of agar. This year, they also ...

Balaram Khamari is a doctoral student in microbiology who has always felt the connection between science and art. "They are interlinked," he says. "Even doing a science experiment requires art." Now, ...

EZ-Spread™ Plating Beads from AMSBIO (Oxford, UK) allow you to spread bacterial and yeast cells across the surface of an agar plate in just seconds. Eliminating the traditional need for glass rods and ...