A colony of leafcutter ants is home to more than just one species. Each year, studies reveal new layers of complexity in ...
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An international research team led by Konrad Meister from Boise State University’s Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research has identified a new class ...
A mineral-hogging fungus can “bully” bacteria into becoming more antibiotic resistant, according to new work published June 20 in the journal PLOS Biology by Fred Hutch Cancer Center scientists. The ...
Johns Hopkins researchers use oyster and turkey tail mushrooms to break down psychoactive drugs commonly found in wastewater treatment byproducts ...
Can fungi influence the weather? Turns out, they just might. An international group of researchers that includes Virginia ...
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Modern society seems to have gone germophobic—say the word "bacteria" and most people will immediately conjure images of nasty illnesses and dangerous infections. But bacteria, fungi and other ...
Mycologists cultivated fungi they found in post-wildfire landscapes to understand the evolutionary traits behind their ...