Making the Invisible Visible

If you haven’t visited our Invisible Life project in the last few weeks, go pop on over today and check it out!

We’ve added a handful of new stories about the tiny species in our daily lives, contributed by top-notch scientists and writers including:

• Rachel Adams on the pink stuff growing in your shower: Rhodotorula mucilaginosa

• Peter Andrey Smith on the bacteria that make sushi more nutritious to some people than others: Bacteroides plebeius

• Sean Gibbons on the bacteria that can seemingly do everything, right in your belly hole: Rhodopseudomonas palustris

• Holly Bik on the round worms in your tap water: Nematodes

• Richard Conniff on the skin bacteria gone bad: Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

We’ll continue to add new chapters in the coming weeks and ultimately will publish a compilation of the pieces as an iBook. Stay tuned!