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Stunning Slime Molds, Captivating Corals, And Fantastic Frogs: The Close-up Photographer Of The Year Winners Are HereA stunning photograph of a pink cauliflower coral looking up at the blue sea. The branches of the coral look like trees and the blue looks like the sky full of stars.

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Stunning Slime Molds, Captivating Corals, And Fantastic Frogs: The Close-up Photographer Of The Year Winners Are HereA stunning photograph of a pink cauliflower coral looking up at the blue sea. The branches of the coral look like trees and the blue looks like the sky full of stars.
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Stunning Slime Molds, Captivating Corals, And Fantastic Frogs: The Close-up Photographer Of The Year Winners Are Here

clock-iconFebruary 5, 2026
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Everything We Knew About Psilocybin’s Natural Function May Be WrongMagic mushrooms

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Everything We Knew About Psilocybin’s Natural Function May Be WrongMagic mushrooms
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Everything We Knew About Psilocybin’s Natural Function May Be Wrong

clock-iconFebruary 3, 2026
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Scientists Spiked Fly Food With Magic Mushrooms To Try And Figure Out Why They EvolvedDried magic mushrooms under a red light.

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Scientists Spiked Fly Food With Magic Mushrooms To Try And Figure Out Why They EvolvedDried magic mushrooms under a red light.
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Scientists Spiked Fly Food With Magic Mushrooms To Try And Figure Out Why They Evolved

clock-iconJanuary 26, 2026
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"It Sounds Like A Long Shot": Why Scientists Hope To Rescue A Zombie TreeRhodamnia zombi leaves affected by Austropuccinia psidii, which prevents reproduction long before it kills the plant, making the species a zombie

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"It Sounds Like A Long Shot": Why Scientists Hope To Rescue A Zombie TreeRhodamnia zombi leaves affected by Austropuccinia psidii, which prevents reproduction long before it kills the plant, making the species a zombie
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"It Sounds Like A Long Shot": Why Scientists Hope To Rescue A Zombie Tree

clock-iconJanuary 26, 2026
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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living DescendantsIt's not obscene, because this is not an artist's reconstruction of an animal, or even a fungus, but an extinct lineage.

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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living DescendantsIt's not obscene, because this is not an artist's reconstruction of an animal, or even a fungus, but an extinct lineage.
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The First Great Forests Were Neither Fungus Nor Plant, But Lifeforms Without Living Descendants

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2026
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Why Did "Magic Mushrooms" Evolve To Be Hallucinogenic – What's In It For The Mushrooms?Magic mushrooms containing psilocybin.

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Why Did "Magic Mushrooms" Evolve To Be Hallucinogenic – What's In It For The Mushrooms?Magic mushrooms containing psilocybin.
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Why Did "Magic Mushrooms" Evolve To Be Hallucinogenic – What's In It For The Mushrooms?

clock-iconNovember 11, 2025
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Mushrooms Could Beat Metal For Large-Scale Memory Storage And ProcessingThe capacity of small amounts of mycelium from shiitake mushrooms to hold a memory of input voltages, and change resistance as a result, has been demonstrated

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Mushrooms Could Beat Metal For Large-Scale Memory Storage And ProcessingThe capacity of small amounts of mycelium from shiitake mushrooms to hold a memory of input voltages, and change resistance as a result, has been demonstrated
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Mushrooms Could Beat Metal For Large-Scale Memory Storage And Processing

clock-iconOctober 27, 2025
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Cheese Caves, A Proposal, And Chance: How Scientists Ended Up Watching Fungi Evolve In Real TimeThe mold on the rind of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese: the original green and the evolved white several years later.

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Cheese Caves, A Proposal, And Chance: How Scientists Ended Up Watching Fungi Evolve In Real TimeThe mold on the rind of Bayley Hazen Blue cheese: the original green and the evolved white several years later.
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Cheese Caves, A Proposal, And Chance: How Scientists Ended Up Watching Fungi Evolve In Real Time

clock-iconOctober 14, 2025
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Mushrooms Evolved The Ability To Make Psilocybin Twice Independently, For Mysterious ReasonsA group of small white mushrooms.

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Mushrooms Evolved The Ability To Make Psilocybin Twice Independently, For Mysterious ReasonsA group of small white mushrooms.
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Mushrooms Evolved The Ability To Make Psilocybin Twice Independently, For Mysterious Reasons

clock-iconSeptember 26, 2025
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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Fossils Mark The Oldest Known Example Of “Zombie Fungus” Infectionan ant parasitised by fungus

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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Fossils Mark The Oldest Known Example Of “Zombie Fungus” Infectionan ant parasitised by fungus
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99-Million-Year-Old Amber Fossils Mark The Oldest Known Example Of “Zombie Fungus” Infection

clock-iconJune 25, 2025
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The Fungus Blamed For “Tutankhamun’s Curse” Could Make A Potent Anti-Cancer Drugclose up side view of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus

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The Fungus Blamed For “Tutankhamun’s Curse” Could Make A Potent Anti-Cancer Drugclose up side view of Tutankhamun's sarcophagus
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The Fungus Blamed For “Tutankhamun’s Curse” Could Make A Potent Anti-Cancer Drug

clock-iconJune 23, 2025
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Help, My Nails Have Turned Green! What Is Chloronychia, AKA “Green Nail Syndrome”?nail with chloronychia, a patch of greeny-black discolouration

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Help, My Nails Have Turned Green! What Is Chloronychia, AKA “Green Nail Syndrome”?nail with chloronychia, a patch of greeny-black discolouration
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Help, My Nails Have Turned Green! What Is Chloronychia, AKA “Green Nail Syndrome”?

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There's A Bold And Controversial Theory That Jesus Was A Hallucinogenic MushroomFly agaric (Amanita muscari) mushrooms with their classic red caps in a forest.

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There's A Bold And Controversial Theory That Jesus Was A Hallucinogenic MushroomFly agaric (Amanita muscari) mushrooms with their classic red caps in a forest.
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There's A Bold And Controversial Theory That Jesus Was A Hallucinogenic Mushroom

clock-iconMay 23, 2025
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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's StratosphereA photo taken just above the Earth's stratosphere, showing thick cloud cover stretching out to the curvature of the planet in the lower half of the image. The sky is blue and framed against the deep black of space above it. To the left of the photo, at the horizon point, a bright flare can be seen as the Sun is starting to rise into view.

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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's StratosphereA photo taken just above the Earth's stratosphere, showing thick cloud cover stretching out to the curvature of the planet in the lower half of the image. The sky is blue and framed against the deep black of space above it. To the left of the photo, at the horizon point, a bright flare can be seen as the Sun is starting to rise into view.
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Pathogenic Fungal Spores Found Surviving Miles Above Our Heads In Earth's Stratosphere

clock-iconMay 8, 2025
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In 1982, Gophers Were Dropped Onto Mount St Helens And Amazing Things Happened To The EcosystemMt St Helens looking all picturesque with wildflowers at sunrise.

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In 1982, Gophers Were Dropped Onto Mount St Helens And Amazing Things Happened To The EcosystemMt St Helens looking all picturesque with wildflowers at sunrise.
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In 1982, Gophers Were Dropped Onto Mount St Helens And Amazing Things Happened To The Ecosystem

clock-iconApril 18, 2025
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