White noise seems to get fungus to grow faster and we’re not sure why
It grew almost two times faster than fungus grown in silence.
Tag: fungus
Researchers Decode the Genome of a Fungus That Turns 80% of The Flies in Your Home Into Zombies
The mind-controlling fungus could inspire a novel class of precision pesticides, as well as new drugs for mental health.
The banana apocalypse is coming. Can we stop it this time?
It's not the first time we've had big banana problems.
Researchers identify gene that makes plants and fungi play nice — we’ll use it to make better crops
"The resulting plants would grow larger and need less water and fertilizer, for instance," say the authors.
A parasite worth three times its weight in gold is disappearing — and with it hundreds of thousands of jobs
The gold rush for a unique Himalayan fungus seems to be running out.
This fungus senses gravity using a gene it borrowed from bacteria
Don't mind me, just borrowing some genes to make gravity-sensing crystals. Sorry, what?
Drug-resistant candida outbreaks in the UK despite hospital efforts to control it
The CDC deemed this fungus a "serious global health threat."
Fungus-derived molecule enables axon regrowth — potentially treating brain and spinal chord injuries
Broken axons are like a broken router -- no connection.
Farmer ants still struggle with undomesticated crops, study finds
Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.
Lichens actually comprise a threesome, not a partnership
The more the merrier.
White Nose Bat Syndrome spreads deeper into the U.S. — first case confirmed west of the Rockies
The first case of white nose syndrome, a disease that has wreaked havoc on bat populations in the eastern U.S. ...
Fungi eat yummy minerals from rocks using acid and mechanical force
Fungi were thought to have a minimal impact on minerals' bioweathering. A recent study suggests that fungi are a lot ...
Oldest fungus fossil set the stage for life on land 440 million years ago
An early land lover, the Tortobu might have been a key part of the land ecosystem that eventually grew to ...
Fungus turns frogs into sex zombies, but then kills off whole species
A new study of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a deadly fungus which affects amphibians worldwide, found that it spreads by making ...
Agricultural behaviors recorded in bees for the first time
Cristiano Menezes of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation has discovered farming behaviors in bees, adding them to the list of ...
Crops farmed by leafcutter ants show signs of domestication: Leafcutter ants became farmers 50 million years before humans
Leafcutter ants in South America grow fungus as crops, this has been known for quite a while. But their crops ...
How many germs you can find in your home: about 9,000 different species
Nothing to freak out about. This is perfectly normal.
Nature’s toupee: fungus weaves astonishing hair-ice
For over a century since it was described, a peculiar type of ice known as hair-ice or ice wool has ...
Fungal Disease Kills 5 million North American bats in only Seven Years
In just 7 years, a disease called white-nose syndrome has killed more than 5 million North American bats, almost wiping out ...
Zombie ant fungi ‘know’ brains of their hosts
A while ago, we were telling you about the infamous "zombie ant fungus" - a parasitic fungus that reproduces by manipulating ...
Hundreds of amphibian species all over the world killed by fungus infection, but there may yet be hope
Since the 1990s, biologists have witnessed a sudden demise of amphibian species. So far, hundreds of species have become extinct after ...
Microwave technique makes bread last for 120 days, without chemical or other preservatives
About one in three breads is thrown away because it gets too tough and infected, and thus inedible, because of ...
Hyper-parasite defends ant colonies from zombie-ant fungus
Last year, we reported on one of the most gruesome and horrific acts that goes on in nature; it seems ...
Fungus that devours plastic might help clean the environment
A group of students from Yale University, along with molecular biochemistry professor Scott Strobel, were on a routine trip to the Amazon's Yasuni ...
