Think of bacteria , and you credibly think of illness , infection , and other unpleasantries . But this picture show that they have a beautiful side after all .
A contenderin the Art of Science competitionrun by Princeton University , this picture depicts how the bacteria Myxococcus xanthus moves over fourth dimension . To make it , Mingzhai Sun and Joshua Shaevitz recorded the paths that M. xanthus — societal bacteria that move in packs to hunt quarry — took over the course of four hour .
Each strand shows the journeying of a finical pack of bacterium , and the coloring changes mean elapsed time — blue be the start of the journeying and red the final stage . you could see more competitiors inPrinceton’sScience as Art 2013 gallery . [ nontextual matter of ScienceviaNew Scientist ]
Image by Mingzhai Sun and Joshua Shaevitz / department of physics and the Lewis - Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics / Princeton University Art of Science Competition
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