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Sunlight plants parasitize on mushrooms
Biology

Sunlight plants parasitize on mushrooms

A species of flowering plants discovered in Japan spends most of its time hiding underground and stealing fungal nutrients to survive instead of photosynthesis like regu…

December 17, 2018
Plants talk to each other
Biology

Plants talk to each other

Plants have the ability to exchange information through the mycelium network below the ground.

December 17, 2018
Mushroom saves the world environment
Biology

Mushroom saves the world environment

Mushrooms can be used as food, to help produce bread and beer. But, little is known that it can also be used to make safe pesticides, tissue culture in medicine and a gr…

December 17, 2018
Miraculous ability of mushrooms
Biology

Miraculous ability of mushrooms

The fungus has the ability to control the surrounding air, more accurately manipulating the surrounding weather to bring fungal spores everywhere.

December 17, 2018
These fungi have strange shapes
Biology

These fungi have strange shapes

Finger fungus, bleeding tooth fungus or canine mushroom are some of the fungi that have the most peculiar shapes and unique characteristics in the world.

December 17, 2018
Sunbathing insects to prevent disease
Biology

Sunbathing insects to prevent disease

Paul Boxelder often concentrates in groups to sunbathe in the province of British Columbia, Canada. Given that this phenomenon is unusual, biologists from Simon Fraser U…

December 17, 2018
There is a cure for fungi
Biology

There is a cure for fungi

According to a report on PLoS ONE, Ophiocordyceps fungus after getting into the brain ants will control the host until the body is destroyed. Ants infected with this fun…

December 17, 2018
He knows to heal himself
Biology

He knows to heal himself

Research author Michel Simone-Finstrom, University of North Carolina (USA) said: When the beehive appears fungal pathogens and some individuals have been infected, worke…

December 17, 2018
Mushrooms turn ants into zombies
Biology

Mushrooms turn ants into zombies

Experts have identified four new fungal species capable of controlling ants' brains, turning hosts into walking corpses before ending their lives.

December 17, 2018
Plants under a microscope
Biology

Plants under a microscope

In the book Micro World (Microcosmos), author Brandon Broll (London, England) presents many pictures of the biological world looking through a microscope. The photos bel…

December 17, 2018