Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas A&M University have found that, over a period of five months after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, naturally-occurring bacteria removed at least 200,000 tons of oil and natural gas.

In an example of life imitating art, biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego have created a living neon sign composed of millions of bacterial cells that periodically fluoresce in unison like blinking light bulbs.