While infectious fungal plant diseases relentlessly wreak havoc on many crops, they are also picky when…
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Fungi stores a third of carbon from fossil fuel emissions and could be essential to reaching net zero, new study reveals
Mycorrhizal fungi have been supporting life on land for at least 450 million years by helping…
How a microbe creates its own sulfate reduction machinery
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany, have uncovered the molecular…
Climate justice: Global North owes $170 trillion for excessive carbon dioxide emissions, says study
Industrialized nations responsible for excessive levels of carbon dioxide emissions could be liable to pay a…
'Butterfly chaos effect' discovered in swarms and herds of animals
Researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)…
The stories about whales helping tackle climate change are overblown, says new research
Whales have long fascinated us with their size and beauty. Once we stopped whaling, their populations…
Weather anomalies found to be keeping insects active longer
As Earth’s climate continues to warm due to the emission of greenhouse gasses, extreme and anomalous…
Nanobiotics: AI for discovering where and how nanoparticles bind with proteins
Identifying whether and how a nanoparticle and protein will bind with one another is an important…
What are meteorites? I visit and study the craters they've left across our planet
Tens of thousands of asteroids—that we know of—are roaming our solar system. These are building blocks…
Quantum effects detected in hydrogen and noble gas collisions
A Freie Universität Berlin research team headed by quantum physicist Professor Christiane Koch has demonstrated how…