[In Photos: The Microbe Masterpieces of the 2015 Agar Art Competition] To keep the contents of their petri dishes looking artistic, Berkmen and Penil allowed bacteria to grow inside the dish for a ...

And it would be undeniably cool if the building blocks of living things could differ. The arsenic-eating bacterium, written up in the current issue of Science, provides a muted proof of concept ...

cutting off the oxygen that aerobic bacteria need to grow, and preserving the artwork. The second place winners made a "microbial map" of New York City. The art was made by Christine Marizzi ...