Claims spreading online distorted a Brazilian research team's findings on the effects of music on lab cell cultures.

An embryologist works on a Petri dish at the Create Health fertility clinic in south London on Thursday 14 August 2013.

Once thought to have originated in cows and spread through dust, the surprising evolutionary story of tuberculosis reveals why it's so hard to stamp out this ancient disease, writes Carl Zimmer ...

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He conducts experiments to detect bacterial growth by swabbing items, cultivating the samples in petri dishes, and examining the resulting bacterial cultures. In an eye-opening video that has now ...

Your morning politics digest with Sky News' Sam Coates and Politico's Anne McElvoy. Meghan Markle officially launches As Ever — and products are immediately selling out UK’s rarest cars: 1977 ...

But when I learned that some of them had spontaneously developed optic vesicles—that is, precursors to eyes—I realized that the closer these experiments get to a real brain, the closer we get ...

From a tender age, we're taught to wash our hands after using the loo, and while most of us adhere to this hygiene rule, many still flout it. In fact, recent research into Brits' bathroom habits ...

In my own brief foray into the laboratory as an undergrad, I poured agar into probably hundreds of petri dishes, a tedious but necessary first step for many experiments. The lab where Protacio ...

On a recent visit to Wilson’s lab at MIT, I watched as he pulled out two petri dishes from the experiment. This first petri dish contained RuBisCO you’d find in nature — which wasn’t very ...

set out to find out whether or not people should be wearing shoes they sport 'in public' into the house by conducting a simple experiment using Q-tips and petri dishes. In her Instagram video ...