Tag: Fungus
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
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
