Our phones are harbingers of bacteria and filth. We know this, but to hit the point home a little further, a class of medical students imprinted their mobile phones onto bacteriological growth media and the result was a photo set that beautifully and disgustingly shows exactly where the bacteria is on smart phones. Should we panic?! Kim Horcher discusses with Phil Torres (Scientist, host of Al Jazeera America’s TechKnow) and Jason G. Goldman (Scientist, writer for Scientific American, BBC Future).
View all the photos: http://exploringtheinvisible.com/2014…
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