Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects pruning — no less in environments poisoned with antibiotics — other bacterial landscape architects, dead or alive, to form dazzling arabesque parterres. The self-organizing embroidery of organisms in constant Darwinian mode.















Look for them in the spring catalogues of Martha Stewart Living.

(All images come from the laboratory of Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the Tel-Aviv University, specifically here, as part of a collaboration with Prof. Herbert Levine of UCSD’s National Science Foundation Frontier Center for Theoretical Biological Physics.)

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