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1,422 results for: Fungi

  1. Health & Medicine

    Common fungus may raise asthma risk

    The presence of a fungus in the infant gut can signal development of asthma by age 5.

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  2. Chemistry

    Want to build a dragon? Science is here for you

    Fire-breathing dragons can’t live anywhere outside of a book or TV. But nature provides some guidance as to how they might get their flames. If they existed, anyway.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    To regulate fecal transplants, FDA has to first answer a serious question: What is poop?

    Fecal transplants are the treatment of the future for some conditions. But right now, they are entirely unregulated. Here’s why putting regulations in place is so complex.

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  4. Planetary Science

    How to keep humans from ruining the search for life on Mars

    As the race to put humans on Mars heats up, researchers worry they are running out of time to find life on the Red planet.

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  5. Tech

    This robot grows like a plant

    A new soft robot navigates its environment by growing in a manner inspired by plants.

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  6. Life

    Wild yeasts are brewing up batches of trendy beers

    Wild beer studies are teaching scientists and brewers about the tropical fruit smell and sour taste of success.

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  7. Animals

    The mystery of vanishing honeybees is still not definitively solved

    The case has never been fully closed for colony collapse disorder, and now bees face bigger problems.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    Clean inside those bagpipes — and trumpets and clarinets

    Bagpipes’ moist interiors may be the perfect breeding ground for yeasts and molds.

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  9. Anthropology

    Christina Warinner uncovers ancient tales in dental plaque

    Molecular biologist Christina Warinner studies calculus, or fossilized dental plaque, which contains a trove of genetic clues to past human diet and disease.

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  10. Animals

    Drowned wildebeests can feed a river ecosystem for years

    Only a small percentage of wildebeests drown as they cross the Mara River, but they provide resources for the river ecosystem for years after their deaths.

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  11. Life

    Lichens are an early warning system for forest health

    Lichens, fascinating mosaics of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, are made for sensing environmental change.

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  12. Genetics

    How to grow toxin-free corn

    Corn genetically altered to produce specialized molecules may prevent a fungus from tainting it with carcinogenic toxins.

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