Tag: Fungus
‘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
Sea level doesn’t rise at the same rate everywhere – we...
Shaina Sadai, Five College Consortium and Ambarish Karmalkar, University of Rhode Island
When polar ice sheets melt, the effects...
