bacteria

  • Discovered: Bacteria that will climb through your sinuses, eat your brain

    Naegleria fowleri, other than sounding like the name of an obscure and sinister African made amphibious automobile, is the actual scientific name of an amoeba that lives in lukewarm water. Historically, this amoeba hasn’t been much of a problem because most water where it could thrive was too cold for...
  • Bio-engineer develops a Petri Arcade

    We already thought that Flash games were cool, imagine how we’d feel about petri dish games. This is exactly what Ingmar Riedel-Kruse had in mind when he developed Ciliaball and Pac-mecium, two games that are playable by interacting with real live microbes, using microscopic cameras and a special microscopic...