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4 Types of Toenail Fungus and How To Treat Them
It can take up to a year for toenail fungus to completely resolve with treatment, and it can come back without proper ...
A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded ...
Organic particles that settle on the seabed ensure CO2 stays locked. However, natural gel-like substances slow down this ...
Aspergillus fungus thrives in warm climates and could infect millions. The spread of fungal pathogens may become common, researchers caution. A killer fungus could spread through parts of Europe ...
A BBC documentary crew in Northern Ireland stumbled upon a fungus that hijacks spiders in an arachnid version of “The Last of Us.” By Kate Golembiewski An abandoned gunpowder storage shed ...
Turns out humans, aren’t the only creature that can ride the psychedelic wave that comes with ingesting fungus. Except the side effects for cicadas, a flying pest, are quite deadly. We are ...
Add an acid-loving fungus to that list of dangers ... an evolutionary biologist at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. Prey decomposition speeds up and the plant gets more nutrients.
Massospora consumes cicadas from the inside out then drives them to mate—in the process making infected ... fungal parasite Massospora cicadina. The fungus hijacks the sexual signals of cicadas ...
For his dish, the chef incorporated the fungus sample into a colorless and bland rice custard. After a 60 hour fermentation process, the once bland custard came out sweet with a surprisingly ...
A new kind of “biohybrid” robot moves in response to signals from the nervous system of a fungus. Now, scientists at Cornell University have developed a new biohybrid robot that uses ...
The process is already used to make a traditional food in Java, Indonesia, and at a few top chefs are experimenting with using the fast-growing fungus to create a gourmet dessert. But new details ...
The decomposition process uses bacteria or microbes found in the materials ... Adding yeast, which is a form of fungus, to your compost can be beneficial because the active yeast carries out a ...