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1,424 results for: Fungi

  1. Materials Science

    Concrete Nation

    From ultrahigh-performance concrete that bends like metal to concrete blocks that transmit light, scientists are pushing the physical and architectural limits of this ubiquitous construction material.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Select immune cells help marrow grafts

    By excising certain immune cells from donor bone marrow, physicians have devised a new way of performing marrow transplants.

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  3. Plants

    Botany under the Mistletoe

    Twisters, spitters, and other flowery thoughts for romantic moments.

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  4. Chemistry

    Nitrogen Unbound: New reaction breaks strong chemical link

    Researchers have developed a new way to turn nitrogen into ammonia that could improve upon an energy-intensive, 90-year-old method used to make fertilizers.

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  5. Agriculture

    How Olives Might Enhance Potatoes—and Strawberries

    Many people savor the flavor of olive oil. Few who have ever encountered the “cake” that remains after the oil is pressed, however, savor the experience. Thats because the pressed olive flesh ends up in unused, smelly heaps. In the European Union alone, olive processors produce some 8 million metric tons of these rank wastes […]

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  6. Teams implicate new gene in prostate cancer

    A newly discovered gene may, in rare cases, cause prostate cancer or, more commonly, raise a man's risk of developing the disease.

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  7. They’re Sequencing a What?

    Announcements of new targets for genome sequencing are bringing celebrity to lesser-known twigs on the tree of life.

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  8. Chemistry

    Nutty and fungi-ble taxol sources

    The active ingredient in the anticancer drug taxol has turned up in hazelnuts and fungi.

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  9. 19249

    A mild objection: This article on lichens mentioned that lichens are composed of fungi and algae, a type of protist, as if it were a given that all agree to. While it is true that the majority of taxonomists would classify an alga as a protist, there still are a large number of modern taxonomists […]

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  10. Chemistry

    Toxic runoff from plastic mulch

    Pesticide runoff from tomato fields covered with sheets of plastic can kill fish, clams, and other aquatic life.

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  11. Quite a Switch

    Cells use ribonucleic acids that bind to small molecules such as vitamins to control gene activity.

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  12. Animals

    Life Without Sex

    The search is on for creatures that have evolved for eons without sex.

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