fungus

After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986, scientists expected to find a dead zone where almost nothing could survive. Instead, they found life that found ways to adapt and survive. One key example was a common black fungus called…

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The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only moved in but survived, adapted, and…

###Just in time for Halloween, we’ve got scary bat news. Well, it’s scary news for bats … and anyone who cares about their welfare.A fungus with a creepy name right out of a Harry Potter spell —…

A rare fungus that acts like the Cordyceps fungus which inspired The Last of Us was recently discovered in a rainforest in Scotland.In Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us, mankind is devastated by the Cordyceps brain infection, which turns…

Topline California health officials are preparing for an uptick in valley fever cases and have issued a warning over the potentially deadly fungal infection after a surge of cases linked to a local music festival, an alert that could…

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Not washing your pillowcase for just a week causes build-up of 17,000 times more bacteria colonies than a toilet seat, revolting experiment showsBy Stacy Liberatore For Dailymail.com Updated: 14:08 EDT, 27 June 2023 …

A respected British scientist duped Kew Gardens into displaying a fake 'fungus' more than half a century ago, and the 'species' still remains in the collection today. Richard Dennis, the former head of mycology at Kew in London,…