Tag: Fungi
Natural supplements can be dangerously contaminated, or not even have the...
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut
More than two-thirds of Americans take dietary supplements. The vast majority of consumers – 84% – are confident the...
Thank fungi for cheese, wine and beer this holiday season
Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
It’s hard to imagine a holiday table without bread, meat, vegetables, wine, beer or a board of French cheeses for those...
An ambitious plan to stop the rise of superbugs
David Pride, University of California San Diego
Antibiotic resistance is here to stay, but that doesn’t mean we can’t do anything to stop it.
A headline...
I’m an evolutionary biologist – here’s why this ancient fungal fossil...
Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
Biologists don’t call them “the hidden kingdom” for nothing. With an estimated 5 million species, only a mere 100,000 fungi are...
A frenemy fungus provides clues about a new deadly one
Carol A Kumamoto, Tufts University and Jesus A. Romo, Tufts University
It seems like every few years there’s a virus or bacterium that threatens human...
The dirt on soil loss from the Midwest floods
Jim Ippolito, Colorado State University and Mahdi Al-Kaisi, Iowa State University
As devastating images of the 2019 Midwest floods fade from view, an insidious and...
Stinkhorns, truffles, smuts: The amazing diversity – and possible decline –...
Alexander Weir, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
“Whatever dressing one gives to mushrooms…they are not really good but to...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
