Tag: Fungus
Pancakes won’t turn you into a zombie as in HBO’s ‘The...
Sheryl Barringer, The Ohio State University
In the HBO series “The Last of Us,” named after the popular video...
‘Vaccinating’ frogs may or may not protect them against a pandemic...
Andrea Adams, University of California, Santa Barbara
When the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many wildlife disease researchers like me...
Ants – with their wise farming practices and efficient navigation techniques...
Scott Solomon, Rice University
King Solomon may have gained some of his famed wisdom from an unlikely source –...
A skin-eating fungus from Europe could decimate Appalachia’s salamanders – but...
Debra Miller, University of Tennessee and Matt Gray, University of Tennessee
The Southern Appalachian mountains are a global biodiversity hot spot for salamanders. Dr. Deb...
The womb isn’t sterile – healthy babies are born with bacteria...
Kent Willis, University of Tennessee
For the last hundred years, scientists have believed that humans develop in a womb that remains sterile and completely isolated...
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...
Fungi can help concrete heal its own cracks
Congrui Jin, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Infrastructure supports and facilitates our daily lives – think of the roads we drive on, the...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
