Mobile phones can harbour disease - and a set of Petri dish ‘prints’ of the bacteria lurking on the surface of the average smartphone show exactly how dirty most mobiles are. The ‘prints’ were created ...
Travel + Leisure on MSN
This common travel item is the dirtiest thing you pack, new study finds—and no, it's not your shoes
A petri-dish experiment found a common item had the highest bacterial counts of common travel items.
DURHAM, N.C. (StudyFinds.org) – Germaphobes beware, it may be time to ditch the kitchen sponge for good. A new study by Duke University researchers found the average kitchen sponge is crawling with ...
The Style Theorists on MSN
Your soap kills viruses but does not kill bacteria - here is the chemistry behind that
What is soap actually doing when you shower? Style Theory brings in Stephanie to answer that question with genuine chemistry, covering the dual function that most hygiene education ignores: soap ...
When thinking of art, people don't usually imagine it in a petri dish -- well, maybe just a few people. One microbiologist just flipped the art world on its head and when she recreated Vincent van ...
The new study, published today in Science, is the first large-scale demonstration showing how bacteria react to ever-increasing doses of antibiotics, and how these relentless microbes exploit ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. WASHINGTON – The last place you’d expect to ...
Alexandria Country Day School middle-schoolers tested the 5-second rule and a self-driving robot at the school's annual science fair Wednesday. Sixth-grader Sarah Dowd, 11, cultivated her interest in ...
When it comes to art, germs and bacteria are not the first things that come to mind, but scientists are trying to show a more artful side to an otherwise unappealing topic. To change that view, ...
Bacteria may not be the tool of choice for most artists, but for microbiologists getting in touch with their creative side, it's just as good as paint. Microbiologists, members of the American Society ...
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