For the past century or so, doctors, students and researchers wanting to see what bacteria looked like would grow them in petri dishes. By streaking Jello-like agar with a sample collected from a ...

Check out this highly original light fixture developed by MADLAB called Bacterioptica. Its spaghetti-like structure consists of over 15,000 feet (4,572 meters) of fiber optic cables that are attached ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Believe it or not, your kitchen sponge can make your dishes even dirtier. Researchers say a kitchen sponge can harbor more bacteria than a laboratory petri dish. Eww...but important to ...

A new species of bacteria has been discovered off the coast of Oʻahu. Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ...

As Smithsonian reports, sponges are capable of harboring more bacterial diversity than laboratory petri dishes. Sponges sop up moisture and ... a common sponge also makes it a breeding ground for ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DURHAM, N.C. (StudyFinds.org) – Germaphobes ...