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1,422 results for: Fungi

  1. Life

    Studying cheese reveals how microbes interact

    Microbiologist Rachel Dutton uses cheese rinds to study how microbes form communities.

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  2. Animals

    New book tells strange tales of evolution

    'The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar' features a cadre of critters that have evolved seemingly bizarre solutions to some of life’s biggest problems.

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  3. Animals

    Root fungi make or break monarchs’ chances against parasite

    Fungi that live amid the roots of milkweed plants change the chemicals produced in the plant’s leaves, which can either aid or hinder a monarch butterfly’s ability to fight off parasites.

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  4. Life

    Scientists find way to break through bad bacteria’s defenses

    Enzymes can break down bacterial biofilm’s sugary walls.

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  5. Animals

    Lizard mom’s microbiome may protect her eggs

    Striped plateau lizard moms don’t do any parenting beyond laying eggs. But they may convey protection from pathogens with help from their microbiome.

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  6. Paleontology

    Woolly mammoths’ last request: Got water?

    Woolly mammoths survived on an Alaskan island thousands of years after mainland mammoths went extinct. But they died out when their lakes dried up, thanks to a warming climate and rising sea levels.

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  7. Animals

    How Houdini tadpoles escape certain death

    High-speed video of red-eyed tree frog embryos reveals the secrets to their getaway plans.

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  8. Life

    Truffles aren’t laced with radioactive cesium

    Fallout from the Chernobyl disaster hasn’t made truffles dangerously radioactive, scientists find.

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  9. Life

    Microbes show up on schedule after death

    Microbes in the soil beneath dead bodies offer forensic clues for time and place of death.

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  10. Plants

    New species of tumbleweed is just as bad as its parents

    Two species of invasive tumbleweeds hybridized into a third. A new study finds it probably will be invasive, too.

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  11. Life

    Obesity’s weight gain message starts in gut

    Acetate made by gut microbes stimulates weight gain, research in rodents suggests.

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  12. Life

    Gene study digs into partnership between fungi and plants

    Fungal genes for symbiotic relationship with plants evolved a few times, and relatively recently, a study suggests.

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