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In the early 1990s, Eshel Ben-Jacob, a biological physicist at Tel Aviv University, and his colleagues discovered two new species of bacteria—Paenibacillus dendritiformis and Paenibacillus vortex.
Take Paenibacillus vortex. It’s a swarming bacterium, meaning it has the ability to travel thanks in part to a flagellum. The actual distance traveled is about 1/5 of an inch every hour (that ...
In his Living Language project, Elisar used the bacteria Paenibacillus vortex to grow letters that transform from the long-dead Paleo-Hebrew alphabet to the modern Hebrew one. It’s linguistic ...
These 600 billion soil bacteria, known as Paenibacillus vortex are one of the most elaborately structured bacterial communities in nature. "These bacteria have a great social life, they work like ...
This is a "smart community" of Paenibacillus vortex bacteria. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...