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Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build. The finding was made by an international team analysing networks created by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and th...

One of the biggest truffles found in decades has fetched $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence. A Macau casino owner, Stanley Ho, made the record-breaking bid for the white truffle, which weighed 1.5kg. Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-pri...

Researchers in the US have found what is probably the largest living organism on Earth. It is a fungus that is growing through the earth and roots of trees in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Scientists say it covers 890 hectares (2,200 acres) of land - an area equiva...

Scientists at North Carolina State University have discovered that the fungus-like pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine originally came from the Andes of South America. By comparing the sequences of both the nuclear and the cellular powerhouse, mitochondria, of nearly 100 pathog...

Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life. The scientists reports having discovered three...

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Fungi Slime mould (Preview)	Off Topic	0	1777	Jan 22 01:13 2010 by Blobrana
Slime moulds can produce networks as efficient, cost-effective and resilient as railway networks designed by people, despite having no central control over what they build. The finding was made by an international team analysing networks created by the slime mould Physarum polycephalum and th...
Fungi Fungus ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Trash	12	13174	Apr 25 13:44 2017 by Blobrana
One of the biggest truffles found in decades has fetched $330,000 (£165,000) at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, London and Florence. A Macau casino owner, Stanley Ho, made the record-breaking bid for the white truffle, which weighed 1.5kg. Luciano Savini and his son found the highly-pri...
Fungi Armillaria ostoyae (Preview)	Trash	0	1644	Jun 28 08:34 2008 by Blobrana
Researchers in the US have found what is probably the largest living organism on Earth. It is a fungus that is growing through the earth and roots of trees in the Malheur National Forest in the Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon. Scientists say it covers 890 hectares (2,200 acres) of land - an area equiva...
Fungi Phytophthora infestans (Preview)	Trash	0	1666	Mar 1 21:47 2007 by Blobrana
Scientists at North Carolina State University have discovered that the fungus-like pathogen that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine originally came from the Andes of South America. By comparing the sequences of both the nuclear and the cellular powerhouse, mitochondria, of nearly 100 pathog...
Plants Fungi Fossil lichens (Preview)	Astronomy News	8	12137	Dec 9 19:21 2016 by Blobrana
Scientists declared they have found 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiotic organism in marine fossils believed to be the ancestors of the earliest land-based lichens ever found, shedding light on the sea-to-land evolution of plant life. The scientists reports having discovered three...