ArtsTake a look at these mesmerizing landscapes from the Group of Seven—made of bacteriaA suite of photos by artist Jon Sasaki reveals the microscopic lives on the palettes of some of Canada’s most iconic painters
HealthA link between bacteria and breast cancer?A new study suggests bacteria could could play a role in how the disease progresses, and maybe one day, how it’s treated.
BusinessUsing bacteria to extract metals from shaleA Toronto company is betting on a new breed of microscopic miners
GeneralHarmless bacteria used to fight drug-resistant microbeMicrobe is deadly to patients with weak immune systems
TechnologyWill colonizing meteorites and asteroids with bacteria one day save life as we know it? Panspermia is meant to maintain Earth’s evolutionary path
WorldIt’s life, but not as we know itAn unusual microbe shows how little we may still know about life on our own planet, let alone elsewhere
HealthSuperbug: meet your makerFrogs evolved to fight off microbes. They may also provide us with the next class of antibiotics.
GeneralIs there anything they can’t do?In the current issue of Maclean’s , I wrote about a global effort to track all the bacteria that live in the human body—a...