There are about a trillion species of microbes on Earth, but usually we only pay attention when one of them, E. coli for example, has led to an outbreak of disease. However, besides a few ...

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 ...

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 ...