The world is full of microbes, which have been competing with one another for space and resources since they arose. We are just beginning to learn about the vast numbers of microorganisms that we ...

Nerds have a particular fascination for the Cthulhu mythos of horror novelist and all-around-weird-guy H. P. Lovecraft. In Lovecraft’s stories, Cthulhu was a tentacle-faced titanic god-monster who ...