Petri Dish Mold Test Kits offer two testing methods: capturing airborne spores in a room or collecting surface samples. These kits culture the samples to help identify mold presence and type.

The yellow slime mold Physarum polycephalum exploring a petri dish. Slime deposits to the left of the image tell the slime mold where it has previously explored. Photo by: Audrey Dussutour. How do ...

The accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold contaminated one of his petri dishes, changed the course of modern medicine, with antibiotics key to the decline of ...

The accidental discovery of penicillin by Alexander Fleming in 1928, when mold contaminated one of his petri dishes, changed the course of modern medicine, with antibiotics key to the decline of ...

No, it’s not a Rorschach inkblot: This image captures two single-celled organisms having a chat. Individual members of Physarum polycephalum, which in nature clump together by the thousands to form a ...

A man inadvertently turned his parents’ car into a Petri dish on wheels due to one strange mishap. As a result, he’s reporting that he’s battling what he terms “mold poisoning.” In that ...

He characteristically left out a Petri dish in his lab and then went on vacation. Upon returning, he noticed that a fungus mold from the air had infiltrated the dish and destroyed some of the ...

In 1928, Englishman Alexander Fleming discovered a strain of mold on some contaminated petri dishes: It was penicillin. It would be another decade before scientists understood the full potential ...

What he found in the petri dish was a mold that had drifted in through the air from another lab -- and it had stopped the spread of a bacteria culture that Fleming had been growing dead in its tracks.

For organisms without brains, slime molds show an impressive array of problem-solving behaviors: they can solve mazes and even figure out the optimal layout for the railway system connecting ...