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A forest's diversity may begin somewhere you cannot see, as hidden fungal partnerships beneath the soil help shape the plants aboveForest floor fungal partnerships are now linked to understory plant diversity. Trees with varied soil fungus relationships supported richer...- Mushrooms sent to space return to Earth & end up in pasta: Australian researchers send lion’s mane, turkey’s tail and cordyceps to the ISS, then watch what happens when they returnMushrooms sent to space return to Earth & end up in pasta: Australian scientists sent fungal mycelium to the International Space Station as...
- Jackie Shroff has 700 plants, including guava and mango trees, in his farmhouse. Actor shares five affordable tips on how to grow plants. One is Yale University-approved: ‘My neighbours complain…'Jackie Shroff, Bollywood’s beloved ‘Jaggu Dada', is an ace gardener. He maintains over 700 plants, including guava trees at his farmhouse. ...
- 110-quadrillion-kilometer fungal network moves CO₂ equal to about 11% of annual human emissions into soil each yearAn intricate web of tiny fungal threads stretches underground, connecting plants around the world. These microorganisms are essential, shar...
- China expanded solar panels across its grasslands; nine years later, the plants above and microbes below had both changedA recent study reveals solar panels significantly alter grassland ecosystems. These installations change plant diversity and soil microbial...
- Forget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips longForget the internet, there's a hidden superhighway under your feet, and it's almost a billion Sun trips long and scientists have now mapped...
- Scientists just mapped 110 quadrillion kilometers of hidden fungal threads underground, weighing about five times all humans combinedVast underground fungal networks, stretching billions of times to the sun, exist in Earth's soil. These hyphae, finer than hair, weigh more...
- Project Hail Mary is real? Scientists discover vast underground fungal network spanning 110 quadrillion kilometresA massive underground fungal network, stretching billions of times to the Sun and back, has been mapped. This hidden web connects plants, s...
- Mould On Bathroom Sealant Comes Off EasilyFlaky bathroom sealant is more than a cosmetic issue. It signals a battle between microbes, moisture, and materials. Research from New Zeal...
- Towering Ancient Fossils May Represent Entirely New Form of LifeA 150-year-old fossil, Prototaxites, once thought to be a giant fungus or plant, is now believed to be an entirely extinct lineage of compl...
- How Trees Warn Each Other of Danger Through the SoilBeneath forest floors, intricate fungal networks link trees, facilitating the exchange of nutrients and chemical signals. Stressed trees ca...
- The Wood Wide Web: The Secret Underground Network That Lets Trees Share Food and “Talk”Beneath the forest floor, a vast network of fungi, known as mycorrhizal networks, connects trees, facilitating the exchange of nutrients an...
- This ‘Zombie Fungus’ Controls Ants Without Touching Their Brains—Here’s HowA parasitic fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, precisely controls carpenter ants' final actions without invading their brains. Fungal cel...
- 8 Surprising Facts About How Trees Communicate UndergroundDid you know trees can also "talk" to each other using underground fungal networks? Welcome to the hidden internet of the forest. Let’s tak...
- Sustained rise in antimicrobial resistance in India: ICMR studyA study by ICMR revealed that Klebsiella pneumoniae and Acinetobacter baumannii showed resistance to imipenem among ICU patients with blood...
- Mushrooms saving the planet: From aiding fungal network to being every gourmand's delightTermites need the fungi to consume the forest debris they collect and turn it into an edible form for them.
- Accursed Share partners with author Merlin Sheldrake to launch NFT collectionThe NFTs are digitally curated from Sheldrake's studies of three-dimensional scans of thousands of sliced and rendered samples of plants an...
- Consumer or collector: Who is behind the real crimes of trade in luxury fungi?Cutthroat business in underground fungi globally seems to have spread to Goa where the roen olmi is now endangered by unrestrained harvesti...
- New parasitic plant species Sciaphila yakushimensis discovered in JapanThe new plant species named Sciaphila yakushimensis was found on the subtropical Japanese island of Yakushima, located off the coast of Kyu...
- Tech QueriesI recently bought a DSLR, but I do not get much time to use it. Someone told me that keeping a DSLR packed leads to fungus forming on the l...
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