The Fernbach-style culture flask (invented around 1900) provides a larger liquid surface and hence a better oxygen transfer, albeit at the price of needing more space for the same amount of liquid.

Enjoy your new locale, even if your Erlenmeyer flask homes and DM25 diets are exactly the same as you've been evolving in and adapting to for the last 75,000 generations! Now keep on evolving, my ...

In the meantime, Scully has been doing some investigating of her own at the Georgetown Microbiology Department. She has brought the infamous Erlenmeyer Flask to a Dr. Carpenter who is analyzing ...